Re: How did references to libc.so.7 get in my 6.3 ports?

2008-03-09 Thread E. J. Cerejo
On Sun, 09 Mar 2008 20:12:45 -0400 Vinny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Everyone, I was trying to use portupgrade on totem and ran into a problem with references for libc.so.7 failing to resolve. I have a libc.so.6, of course, seeing as libc.so.7 is for FreeBSD 7, isn't it? uname -a

Re: How did references to libc.so.7 get in my 6.3 ports?

2008-03-09 Thread E. J. Cerejo
On Sun, 09 Mar 2008 23:49:42 -0400 Vinny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: E. J. Cerejo wrote: On Sun, 09 Mar 2008 20:12:45 -0400 Vinny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Everyone, I was trying to use portupgrade on totem and ran into a problem with references for libc.so.7 failing to resolve

Re: configure Boot with 2 hard drives

2008-03-08 Thread E. J. Cerejo
Luigi wrote: Hi everyone, I've got two hard drives on my pc: Master /dev/hda1,hda2,hda3 and slave /dev/hdb where I've installed PC-BSD. I want to configure a grub who propose me to boot on my first drive of my second drive. Is it possible? How can I do it? Thanks for your answers.

Re: Upgrading from 6.2 to 7.0

2008-03-08 Thread Adam J Richardson
The-IRC Hosting Administration Team wrote: There is nothing wrong with obtaining the source code of 7.X and doing a full recompile to upgrade your version sanely. Ah, really? Good news. I heard somewhere there were problems upgrading like that across a major version boundary. Or was it to a

Re: Upgrading from 6.2 to 7.0

2008-03-08 Thread Adam J Richardson
probably best off backing up all your data and doing a clean install. Since I'm a crazy with no regard for his data, I'm doing it again tonight, this time to 7.0-RELEASE with a GENERIC kernel. I'll let you know how it goes. YMMV #include disclaimer.h etc. Regards, Adam J Richardson

Re: Upgrading from 6.2 to 7.0

2008-03-08 Thread Adam J Richardson
-PRERELEASE i386 GENERIC After: %uname -rims FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE i386 GENERIC So all seems well. I won't mention ports here, I am just concerned with kernel and world for now. That said... YMMV, #include disclaimer.h, etc Regards, Adam J Richardson

Can't Print Anymore With CUPS --- Permission Denied

2008-03-07 Thread E. J. Cerejo
I'm running FreeBSD 7RC3, and I've got cups-base-1.3.5_2, hplip-2.7.12 and foomatic-db-hpijs-1.4 installed. When I first configured cups it was printing just fine and fast and now I get this error: Unable to open device file /dev/unlpt0: Permission denied and the printer goes into stop mode.

devd

2008-03-07 Thread E. J. Cerejo
How do I find out if this daemon got loaded at boot time? I do have it on my rc.conf but I don't see anything in dmesg that tells me that it got loaded -- E. J. Cerejo [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

ACPI Problem: acpi_tz0:_TMP value is absurd

2008-03-06 Thread B J
A few weeks ago, I upgraded my Compaq Presario desktop machine from FreeBSD 6.2 to 6.3. I soon noticed this message on the screen. Apparently, the system is measuring the temperature of absolute zero. At first, I thought it to be an installation error on my part, but reformatting the hard drive

Re: Deb archives

2008-03-05 Thread n j
Yes you did! Interesting enough thought, I would like to see how one might config apt-get to be used w/FreeBSD and the packages (I assume?). You might want to have a look at Debian GNU/kFreeBSD (http://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/). Regards, -- Nino

Re: starting a program at boot time

2008-03-05 Thread n j
how do i start a program at boot time? I found the following threads helpful: script to be executed on system startup http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=116+0+archive/2008/freebsd-questions/20080210.freebsd-questions /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ scripts and non-root user

Re: Deb archives

2008-03-05 Thread E. J. Cerejo
Chris wrote: On Tue, 04 Mar 2008 22:54:50 -0500 E. J. Cerejo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 05 Mar 2008 02:46:03 + Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 05 March 2008 02:09:25 E. J. Cerejo wrote: Is there a way to unpack a deb package in FreeBSD? I don't see anything

Deb archives

2008-03-04 Thread E. J. Cerejo
Is there a way to unpack a deb package in FreeBSD? I don't see anything in the ports to do it! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: Deb archives

2008-03-04 Thread E. J. Cerejo
On Wed, 05 Mar 2008 02:46:03 + Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 05 March 2008 02:09:25 E. J. Cerejo wrote: Is there a way to unpack a deb package in FreeBSD? I don't see anything in the ports to do it! I don't know if this helps, but deb packages are really ar achives

Re: freebsd-update and mergemaster

2008-03-03 Thread n j
Who is working on FreeBSD update? Maybe I can make a feature request. Or, even better, make a patch - FreeBSD is open source, everyone can work on it! Sorry, couldn't resist :-). I know the above remark is generally not very helpful for an average user; however, I was surprised to find out

Re: portupgrade

2008-03-03 Thread E. J. Cerejo
On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:55:32 -0800 (PST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to get the portupgrade to just accept all of the defaults for the configurations of the individual ports. I tried # env BATCH=yes, but it still just goes on hanging on the port configuration menus. It seems as

Re: How to mount drives as a regular user.

2008-03-01 Thread E. J. Cerejo
On Sat, 01 Mar 2008 14:15:53 +0100 Dominic Fandrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: E. J. Cerejo wrote: Running FBSD 7.0RC3, I followed the instructions on FAQ article Disks, Filesystems, and Boot Loaders but when I try to mount as a user I get this: mount -t msdosfs /dev/ad0s4 /E

How to mount drives as a regular user.

2008-02-29 Thread E. J. Cerejo
Running FBSD 7.0RC3, I followed the instructions on FAQ article Disks, Filesystems, and Boot Loaders but when I try to mount as a user I get this: mount -t msdosfs /dev/ad0s4 /E mount_msdosfs: /dev/ad0s4: : Operation not supported by device Here's what my devfs.conf looks like: own

Compiling new kernel fails on 7.0RC3

2008-02-24 Thread E. J. Cerejo
After having a few problems with Fbsd 6.3 stable I decided to try 7.0 which impressed me right away because I noticed right away that it performed better on my computer. Now I decided to build my own custom kernel and after running the first command: %buildkernel KERNCONF=mykernel I get

Re: Compiling new kernel fails on 7.0RC3

2008-02-24 Thread E. J. Cerejo
On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 00:00:40 +0100 Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 05:34:20PM -0500, E. J. Cerejo wrote: After having a few problems with Fbsd 6.3 stable I decided to try 7.0 which impressed me right away because I noticed right away that it performed

I'm trying to run a tighvnc (xvnc) server but...

2008-02-17 Thread E. J. Cerejo
I'm getting xdm on the other remote machine, I'm running gnome and that's what I want to get? I see an option for desktop on the Xvnc manpage but how do I find out the name of my desktop? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

The configuration could not be loaded --- Gnome

2008-02-17 Thread E. J. Cerejo
Hello I'm running FreeBSD and gnome and when I noticed that when I try to run System-administration-Network, Services, Shared Folders, Time and Date or User and Groups I get this error window: The configuration could not be loaded You are not allowed to access the system configuration. If I

Re: Evolution just sluggish, slow and slow

2008-02-14 Thread E. J. Cerejo
sergio lenzi wrote: Em Qua, 2008-02-13 às 22:51 -0500, E. J. Cerejo escreveu: I never had this problem before with evolution, but since upgrading to FBSD 6.3 from 6.2, evolution just takes about a minute to start and consumes 98% of my CPU. I recently rebuild it from source but still too

Re: Evolution just sluggish, slow and slow

2008-02-14 Thread E. J. Cerejo
sergio lenzi wrote: Em Qua, 2008-02-13 às 22:51 -0500, E. J. Cerejo escreveu: I never had this problem before with evolution, but since upgrading to FBSD 6.3 from 6.2, evolution just takes about a minute to start and consumes 98% of my CPU. I recently rebuild it from source but still too

Evolution just sluggish, slow and slow

2008-02-13 Thread E. J. Cerejo
I never had this problem before with evolution, but since upgrading to FBSD 6.3 from 6.2, evolution just takes about a minute to start and consumes 98% of my CPU. I recently rebuild it from source but still too slow, no improvement. Any ideas? Second time posting this problem. There are no

Re: libopensync-0.22.tar.bz2?rev=format=raw --- What does it mean?

2008-02-12 Thread E. J. Cerejo
James wrote: E. J. Cerejo wrote: Trying to upgrade libopensync022 and I get this error even though libopensync-0.22.tar.bz2 tarball is in /usr/ports/distfiles. = libopensync-0.22.tar.bz2?rev=format=raw doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/. = Attempting to fetch from http

libopensync-0.22.tar.bz2?rev=format=raw --- What does it mean?

2008-02-12 Thread E. J. Cerejo
Trying to upgrade libopensync022 and I get this error even though libopensync-0.22.tar.bz2 tarball is in /usr/ports/distfiles. = libopensync-0.22.tar.bz2?rev=format=raw doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/. = Attempting to fetch from

Re: Compiz-fusion article

2008-02-11 Thread E. J. Cerejo
Manolis Kiagias wrote: Ga'bor Kovesda'n [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Manolis Kiagias escribio': Never thought this was such a sought-after feature :) Anyway, here is a quick article I just wrote: http://store.itsyourftp.com/~sonic2000gr/freebsd/compiz-fusion/article.html Your feedback is

Re: libicui18n.so.36 not found, required by evolution

2008-02-11 Thread E. J. Cerejo
Dominic Fandrey wrote: E. J. Cerejo wrote: Dominic Fandrey wrote: E. J. Cerejo wrote: Gerard wrote: On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 10:23:36 -0500 E. J. Cerejo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Can portmanager work in conjection with portupgrade? Yes, I use it all the time. Why has

Re: libicui18n.so.36 not found, required by evolution

2008-02-10 Thread E. J. Cerejo
Gerard wrote: On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 13:18:45 + Chris Whitehouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] portmanager -s piped to a file might tell you what's missing Just running: portmanager -u -l -p -y should correct the problem as well. Make sure the ports tree is up to date

Re: libicui18n.so.36 not found, required by evolution

2008-02-10 Thread E. J. Cerejo
Gerard wrote: On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 13:18:45 + Chris Whitehouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] portmanager -s piped to a file might tell you what's missing Just running: portmanager -u -l -p -y should correct the problem as well. Make sure the ports tree is up to date

Re: libicui18n.so.36 not found, required by evolution

2008-02-10 Thread E. J. Cerejo
Gerard wrote: On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 10:23:36 -0500 E. J. Cerejo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Can portmanager work in conjection with portupgrade? Yes, I use it all the time. Why has the ports tree be up to date? What conceivable reason would you have for using

Re: libicui18n.so.36 not found, required by evolution

2008-02-10 Thread E. J. Cerejo
Chris Whitehouse wrote: E. J. Cerejo wrote: Gerard wrote: On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 13:18:45 + Chris Whitehouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] portmanager -s piped to a file might tell you what's missing Just running: portmanager -u -l -p -y should correct the problem as well

Re: libicui18n.so.36 not found, required by evolution

2008-02-10 Thread E. J. Cerejo
Dominic Fandrey wrote: E. J. Cerejo wrote: Gerard wrote: On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 10:23:36 -0500 E. J. Cerejo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Can portmanager work in conjection with portupgrade? Yes, I use it all the time. Why has the ports tree be up to date? What

libicui18n.so.36 not found, required by evolution

2008-02-09 Thread E. J. Cerejo
Running FBSD 6.3 and after updating the ports where icu was one of the ports to be updated I'm getting the libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libicui18n.so.36 not found, required by evolution error, I can see that the new version of icu installed libicui18n.so.38. Is there a better way to fix

Re: libicui18n.so.36 not found, required by evolution

2008-02-09 Thread E. J. Cerejo
On Saturday 09 February 2008 12:29:16 Matthew Seaman wrote: E. J. Cerejo wrote: Running FBSD 6.3 and after updating the ports where icu was one of the ports to be updated I'm getting the libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libicui18n.so.36 not found, required by evolution error, I can see

Re: libicui18n.so.36 not found, required by evolution

2008-02-09 Thread E. J. Cerejo
On Saturday 09 February 2008 13:02:58 Dominic Fandrey wrote: Matthew Seaman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 E. J. Cerejo wrote: Running FBSD 6.3 and after updating the ports where icu was one of the ports to be updated I'm getting the libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared

Re: Compiz-fusion article

2008-02-07 Thread E. J. Cerejo
On Tuesday 05 February 2008 23:49:48 Manolis Kiagias wrote: E. J. Cerejo wrote: On Tuesday 05 February 2008 01:39:07 Manolis Kiagias wrote: E. J. Cerejo wrote: Manolis Kiagias wrote: Alphons Fonz van Werven wrote: E. J. Cerejo wrote: Is there a tutorial on how to configure compiz

Evolution slow to start

2008-02-06 Thread E. J. Cerejo
Does anyone know what might be causing evolution to crawl (more than a minute to open up)? It's been a while since I used it but when I did it wasn't this slow to open up. I don't see any error messages, so I can't post any of them. I have a feeling that it's looking for something before it

Re: Compiz-fusion article

2008-02-05 Thread E. J. Cerejo
On Tuesday 05 February 2008 01:39:07 Manolis Kiagias wrote: E. J. Cerejo wrote: Manolis Kiagias wrote: Alphons Fonz van Werven wrote: E. J. Cerejo wrote: Is there a tutorial on how to configure compiz fusion on FBSD 6.3 / gnome or fluxbox. 1. Use the port/package. 2. Every now

Re: Compiz-fusion article

2008-02-04 Thread E. J. Cerejo
Manolis Kiagias wrote: Alphons Fonz van Werven wrote: E. J. Cerejo wrote: Is there a tutorial on how to configure compiz fusion on FBSD 6.3 / gnome or fluxbox. 1. Use the port/package. 2. Every now and then I see messages fly by in which you can find exactly which flags/options to use

Re: Compiz-fusion article

2008-02-02 Thread E. J. Cerejo
Manolis Kiagias wrote: Alphons Fonz van Werven wrote: E. J. Cerejo wrote: Is there a tutorial on how to configure compiz fusion on FBSD 6.3 / gnome or fluxbox. 1. Use the port/package. 2. Every now and then I see messages fly by in which you can find exactly which flags/options to use

Re: Oops

2008-02-01 Thread E. J. Cerejo
Wojciech Puchar wrote: ufs:mirror/gm0s1a fsck -p / mount / last won't work with fstab not having right entry. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Compiz Fusion

2008-02-01 Thread E. J. Cerejo
Is there a tutorial on how to configure compiz fusion on FBSD 6.3 / gnome or fluxbox. I just can't get it to work following their instructions since they are written for a couple of linux distros. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Compiz Fusion

2008-02-01 Thread E. J. Cerejo
Nerius Landys wrote: I agree. There should be docs for Compiz-Fusion on FreeBSD. There isn't any right now as far as I know. On Feb 1, 2008 3:08 PM, E. J. Cerejo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a tutorial on how to configure compiz fusion on FBSD 6.3 / gnome or fluxbox. I just can't get

Re: Oops

2008-01-31 Thread E. J. Cerejo
Darryl Hoar wrote: am setting up gmirror and screwed up my fstab. When rebooting, it complains until I tell it the root device: ufs:/dev/mirror/gm0s1a add vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:mirror/gm0s1a to /boot/loader.conf How do I do that when / is automatically being mounted read only ? it

Truss and procfs

2008-01-26 Thread n j
Hello everyone, just a short question regarding truss - I did some googling and found a reference to a conversation with proposed (working?) patch to eliminate dependency on procfs. That was in April 2007: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2007-April/070574.html Does anybody

Spam filtering with dspam and postfix

2008-01-25 Thread J. Johnston
Hello, I was wondering if anyone knew of a good howto, or some tips for filtering spam using dspam in a setup where virtual users (various domains) are stored in LDAP. Currently we hand off email to dspam in the filter stage and dspam hands it back into postfix as lmtp, the problem with this

Re: Request for a package or port...

2008-01-11 Thread David J Brooks
On Saturday 12 January 2008 12:40:02 am rpj911 wrote: Hello, I've been using Linux for a few years and just switched to DesktopBSD, very nice. If it's not too much trouble, could you guys port or create a package for the Mnemosyne Project. It's a flashcard program... Thanks. Bob

xf86-video drivers

2008-01-05 Thread E. J. Cerejo
I'm running FBSD6 stable and using portupgrade to manage my ports. I was wondering how do you stop all of these video drivers from building and installing when all I need is xf86-video-nv? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Boot Menu Damaged

2007-12-31 Thread E. J. Cerejo
- Original Message - From: Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: E. J. Cerejo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Monday, December 31, 2007 9:50 AM Subject: Re: Boot Menu Damaged On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 01:17:51AM -0500, E. J. Cerejo wrote: I'm running

Re: Boot Menu Damaged

2007-12-31 Thread E. J. Cerejo
Jerry McAllister wrote: On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 10:46:04AM -0500, E. J. Cerejo wrote: - Original Message - From: Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: E. J. Cerejo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Monday, December 31, 2007 9:50 AM Subject: Re: Boot Menu

Boot menu damaged

2007-12-30 Thread E. J. Cerejo
I'm running FreeBSD 6 stable and I lost my boot menu after reinstalling xp and tried to fix it by booting with instalation cd and run fdisk -B -b /boot/boot0 /dev/ad0 it restored it but when I boot I get the mountroot prompt, it fails to mount ad0s2a, b, c, d. Is it possible to fix this or do

Boot Menu Damaged

2007-12-30 Thread E. J. Cerejo
I'm running FreeBSD 6 stable and I lost my boot menu after reinstalling xp and tried to fix it by booting with instalation cd and run fdisk -B -b /boot/boot0 /dev/ad0 it restored it but when I boot I get the mountroot prompt, it fails to mount ad0s2a, b, c, d. Is it possible to fix this or do

Re: Portsnap -- update claims up to date but it's not.

2007-12-25 Thread David J Brooks
On Tuesday 25 December 2007 10:49:56 pm Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: Maybe I'm just doing this completely wrong: prime# portsnap update Ports tree is already up to date. prime# portsnap fetch Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 4 mirrors found. Fetching snapshot tag from

Re: UTF-8 in Opera/FreeBSD

2007-12-24 Thread David J Brooks
On Monday 24 December 2007 07:59:00 pm Martin Tournoij wrote: On Sun 23 Dec 2007 19:12, Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: I'm switching to UTF-8, and everything seems to work flawlessly, except for Opera. If I type one of the norwegian letters ��� into a text input box all I get is a square

Re: Where is the next uid from adduser pulled from?

2007-12-17 Thread n j
Tried looking for the adduser program, but could not find adduser.c Just to point out that adduser is a shell script, as witnessed by: # file /usr/sbin/adduser /usr/sbin/adduser: Bourne shell script text executable and the response to the original question - how does the system generate new

Re: No audio whatever....

2007-12-17 Thread David J Brooks
On Monday 17 December 2007 03:46:22 pm Jonathan Horne wrote: speaking of catting ive had to on more than one occasion, make sure that my cat didnt bite thru my audio wire. Heh.. thanks for the tip. That explains why I lost all audio on the right channel. Sure enough, kitten-sized

Re: Absolute FreeBSD

2007-12-14 Thread David J Brooks
On Thursday 13 December 2007 11:36:35 pm Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: If you bought and grokked the first book and have been using FreeBSD ever since, do you really need a book of any kind at this point? Don't you have enough experience under your belt to get by without a book? The operating

ReiserFS and /etc/fstab: rw or ro?

2007-12-08 Thread Adam J Richardson
this, but can't find anything recent on FBSD and ReiserFS.) TiA, Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ECCN# of the freeBSD V6.1

2007-12-04 Thread David J Brooks
On Tuesday 04 December 2007 08:30:09 am [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We would like to export a personal computer which FreeBSD Ver6.1 was installed in from Japan. Could you tell me the ECCN# of this software? Best regards, Ishihara If the ECCN for the computer hardware won't suffice, then use

RE: who wrote this

2007-11-26 Thread John J Fitzgerald
Can people stop responding to this thread, especially the personal OT back and forth exchanges? I'm on the freebsd-questions list and it's clogging up my inbox and has nothing to do with the FreeBSD operating system. I think most agree the website should be change to exclude the specific reference

Re: K3b

2007-11-25 Thread David J Brooks
On Sunday 25 November 2007 05:37:46 pm ajtiM wrote: Hi! I am new with FreeBSD. I installed one day ago 7.0 beta3 and I try to learn and setup the system. When I start K3b (KDE) I got a message: No CD/DVD writer found. K3b did not find an optical writing device in your system. Thus, you

Re: Unexpected shutdown

2007-11-23 Thread n j
Just to wrap this thread up, as I was out of town last couple of days: According to shutdown(8) there should be a message in the log stating when the system went down, who did it and why. There should be... but there isn't :-). The only thing that went to /var/log/messages is syslogd exiting

Unexpected shutdown

2007-11-18 Thread n j
Hello, my FreeBSD (6.2 release) box shut down at approximately 3 AM with no apparent reason whatsoever. I'm looking for any hints/pointers that would help me detect why the box decided to shutdown. Perhaps someone with similar experience? This is from 'last' command: shutdown ~

Re: Unexpected shutdown

2007-11-18 Thread n j
Does it happened before, or does it happened everyday at 3 am, or is this the first time your box shutdown without explaination? No, this is the first time this has occurred, that is what makes it completely unexpected. If this is the first time, I would say there are many possibilities. Say

Re: Unexpected shutdown

2007-11-18 Thread n j
Hello Randy, Roland, Gary, This is all ancedotal since I don't have any hard evidence to point to exactly one thing since I also swapped out a fan and reinserted connectors in the process. My feeling is that it was hard drive heat-related so my suggestion is to do some poking around for hot

Re: unimpressive buildworld time

2007-11-16 Thread David J Brooks
kernel and world (I use a script to do that). My other box is running -CURRENT and takes ~11 hours to build kernel and world (Celeron 500...). Just to supply some numbers that go the other direction :-) With no -j and running gnome and doing other things in the foreground (watching

Re: python25 core dumps

2007-11-16 Thread David J Brooks
On Thursday 15 November 2007 03:07:03 am Heiko Wundram (Beenic) wrote: This seems like a problem in qt4 (I don't think the problem is in PyQt), simply try reinstalling that, too (completely; qt4 is split into several ports and pkg_info | grep qt4 is your friend here). A complete rebuild of

Re: What do I put in fstab to get my DVD/CDROM burner to work?

2007-11-16 Thread David J Brooks
On Friday 16 November 2007 08:23:21 pm Gary Kline wrote: I've googled aroound, and can't be sure what to add in the FStype column to get my DCD/CDROM burners to work. Ubuntu installed ny 2005 burner automagically. Nothing like that for FreeBSD, so can anybody clue

Making mergemaster skip certain files

2007-11-16 Thread J. Porter Clark
. Mergemaster has so many options that I'm fairly certain that there must be some way to do this. -- J. Porter Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: What do I put in fstab to get my DVD/CDROM burner to work?

2007-11-16 Thread David J Brooks
On Friday 16 November 2007 10:50:33 pm you wrote: On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 10:24:30PM -0500, Chris Hill wrote: On Fri, 16 Nov 2007, David J Brooks wrote: On Friday 16 November 2007 08:23:21 pm Gary Kline wrote: I've googled aroound, and can't be sure what to add in the FStype column

Re: python25 core dumps

2007-11-15 Thread David J Brooks
On Thursday 15 November 2007 03:07:03 am Heiko Wundram (Beenic) wrote: This seems like a problem in libaspell; maybe you should simply try to reinstall the aspell port. See below for more info. I rebuilt aspell, but gramps still core dumps. The backtrace shows the same as previously. :/

Re: from harikrishna

2007-11-15 Thread David J Brooks
On Thursday 15 November 2007 11:30:40 pm hari krishna wrote: list me few possible faq's for freebsd I'm not sure if you're looking for new/potential user info about FreeBSD or for questions that may come up on how to solve common problems. Either way, the info you're want is probably linked on

Re: How to see UNICODE character number?

2007-11-14 Thread David J Brooks
On Wednesday 14 November 2007 01:17:03 am Yuri wrote: What is the easiest way to get the UNICODE number for a Chinese character? I use KDE. All programs just show the character itself when I paste it :-) Have you tried kcharselect ? David -- This message is presented in DoubleVision (where

Re: How to see UNICODE character number?

2007-11-14 Thread David J Brooks
On Wednesday 14 November 2007 02:19:35 am Yuri wrote: All programs just show the character itself when I paste it :-) Have you tried kcharselect ? Tried it now. When I paste the character to the box in the bottom and press Enter nothing happens. I would like to see it's UNICODE number

python25 core dumps

2007-11-14 Thread David J Brooks
Since upgrading to 7.0-BETA2 most of my python based programs fail with Segmentation fault: 11 (core dumped). It seems to be limited to gui based programs using Gtk or Qt. Any idea what's going on there? Hints on how to analyze the python.core files would be helpful too. David -- This message

Re: python25 core dumps

2007-11-14 Thread David J Brooks
On Wednesday 14 November 2007 05:57:52 pm Heiko Wundram (Beenic) wrote: Am Mittwoch, 14. November 2007 23:15:36 schrieb David J Brooks: Since upgrading to 7.0-BETA2 most of my python based programs fail with Segmentation fault: 11 (core dumped). It seems to be limited to gui based programs

Re: pkgdb failure

2007-11-12 Thread J. W. Ballantine
- Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 10:24:14 +1100 To: J. W. Ballantine [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: matti k [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: pkgdb failure On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 08:06:54 -0500 J. W. Ballantine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After upgrading from 6-STABLE to 7-RELEASE, I tried to rebuild

Re: how can i install gnome2 through console

2007-11-09 Thread Adam J Richardson
it to support Gnome. Regards, Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What kind of audio device is this?

2007-11-09 Thread Adam J Richardson
on uaudio0 which is every bit as dull as yours. By the way I don't have a /dev/dsp either. It doesn't seem to be required. HtH, Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Should I just go ahead on 7.0?

2007-11-09 Thread Adam J Richardson
my src-supfile from RELENG_6 to RELENG_7 and build/install world/kernel as normal, right? I /need/ that wpi driver... :) Nervously, Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: thunderbird eats all memory and dies

2007-11-09 Thread Adam J Richardson
something to do with XUL - Firefox chugs on my (reasonably) beefy systems too. It's too pretty to delete though. :/ Regards, Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: STILL cannot login as kline!

2007-11-09 Thread Adam J Richardson
make you [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perhaps the system doesn't like this kind of thing. Is it possible that kline is some sort of reserved word (eg. k-line)? Does it still fail if you change to another user, perhaps garyk? HtH, Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd

pkgdb failure

2007-11-09 Thread J. W. Ballantine
After upgrading from 6-STABLE to 7-RELEASE, I tried to rebuild all the packages from portupgrade -af I started getting the following error messages. The first once, the second multiple times, even after I moved the pkgdb.db and did a pkgdb -fu. [/usr/ports/INDEX-7.db: unexpected file type or

Re: Ports problem

2007-11-09 Thread Adam J Richardson
/X11R6 /usr/X11R6-2 # ln -s /usr/X11R6-2 /usr/X11R6 # make install Regards, Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Botched X.org upgrade, need help

2007-11-09 Thread Adam J Richardson
that you have to install 1) Xorg, 2) mesa-demos, 3) nVidia driver, in that order (assuming you want mesa-demos, of course). Regards, Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Ports problem

2007-11-09 Thread Adam J Richardson
RW wrote: On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 13:39:28 + Adam J Richardson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Desmond Chapman wrote: /usr/X11R6 exists, but it is not a symlink. Installation cannot proceed. This looks like an incompletely removed old version of X. In the current version, /usr/X11R6 must be a symlink

Re: Congratulations

2007-11-09 Thread Adam J Richardson
Chris wrote: ... Does that mean I have to share the winnings with everyone on the list?! Yes. Hurry up, I'm broke. :P Regards, Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: strange error when building cups

2007-11-09 Thread Adam J Richardson
execution' is interesting. Do you use some sort of load balancer? HtH, Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: pkgdb failure

2007-11-09 Thread J. W. Ballantine
Thanks, I thought it was something like that, that's why i rebuilt th pkgdb. -- In Response to your message - Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2007 08:30:47 -0800 To: J. W. Ballantine [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re

Re: Should I just go ahead on 7.0?

2007-11-09 Thread Adam J Richardson
Garrett Cooper wrote: Adam J Richardson wrote: Garrett Cooper wrote: You should be fine now (pending any bugs found in the beta/release process), because 7-CURRENT's source has been essentially frozen since August I believe.. -Garrett Hi Garrett, It should be ok to upgrade straight from

Re: Xorg and WSXGA

2007-11-02 Thread Crist J. Clark
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 07:49:42AM -0500, Josh Paetzel wrote: On Thursday 01 November 2007 12:53:11 am Crist J. Clark wrote: On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 07:50:10PM -0400, Brian A. Seklecki wrote: On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 23:36 -0700, Crist J. Clark wrote: I finally dumped the CRT and bought

Re: ipfw -- why need to let icmp out that I already let in?

2007-10-31 Thread n j
add 10510 allow icmp from any to any out via oif() keep-state I don't think ICMP is stateful :) You need both in and out rules for ICMP because the logical responses to packets can't be reliably connected into a single communication. Actually, I disagree. True, ICMP is not a stateful

Re: Xorg and WSXGA

2007-10-31 Thread Crist J. Clark
On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 07:50:10PM -0400, Brian A. Seklecki wrote: On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 23:36 -0700, Crist J. Clark wrote: I finally dumped the CRT and bought a ridiculusly cheap 20 LCD monitor. Works great except I'm having problems getting it to go widescreen and use the full display

Xorg and WSXGA

2007-10-30 Thread Crist J. Clark
monitor is an Envision G2016wa. Thanks for any help. -- Crist J. Clark | [EMAIL PROTECTED] X Window System Version 7.2.0 Release Date: 22 January 2007 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.2 Build Operating System: FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE i386 Current Operating System

Re: Portupgrade used to be fun!!!

2007-10-27 Thread E. J. Cerejo
P.U.Kruppa wrote: On Sat, 27 Oct 2007, E. J. Cerejo wrote: Not anymore! Every time I cvsup my ports tree and I see all of those ports that need to be updated my belly aches and that's because portupgrade doesn't work the way it used to work. It is not fun any more! Always an issue, either

Re: Portupgrade used to be fun!!!

2007-10-27 Thread Adam J Richardson
Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: P.U.Kruppa wrote: On Sat, 27 Oct 2007, E. J. Cerejo wrote: Not anymore! Every time I cvsup my ports tree and I see all of those ports that need to be updated my belly aches and that's because portupgrade doesn't work the way it used to work. It is not fun any more

Portupgrade used to be fun!!!

2007-10-26 Thread E. J. Cerejo
Not anymore! Every time I cvsup my ports tree and I see all of those ports that need to be updated my belly aches and that's because portupgrade doesn't work the way it used to work. It is not fun any more! Always an issue, either a port conflicts with another port or it fails all together.

Re: Is it difficult to move from Linux?

2007-10-24 Thread Adam J Richardson
Donovan R. Palmer wrote: I have saved many of your emails for future reference. Hi Donovan, Welcome to the list. There's no need for you to store the emails, since they're all archived at http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/ anyway. :) Regards, Adam J Richardson

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