How To Fix "Use of assignment to $[ is deprecated"

2011-10-15 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Somehow while trying to upgrade my ports, I got things out of whack. The final straw was that perl got upgraded from 5.8.9 to 5.12.4. I've read the notes in UPDATING but they are not helping my situation. Finally, I just decided that a "portupgrade -af" would be in my best interest. However

Re: boost issue freebsd 8.2 (32 bit) - infinite loop of boost

2011-10-15 Thread Waitman Gobble
On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 5:53 PM, Damien Fleuriot wrote: > > > On 15 Oct 2011, at 19:38, Waitman Gobble wrote: > > Hi, > > I identified the problem - the build script insists on fetching boost from > heanet.dl.sourceforge.net -- for some reason this hangs indefinitely from > my > connection. ie,

Re: Do you find chrome on FreeBSD buggy?

2011-10-15 Thread Reed Loefgren
On 10/15/11 11:27, Yuri wrote: I keep seeing some artefacts, like text selection isn't cleared by clicking anywhere else. Or when some strange (Unicode) symbol shows up, for example on wikipedia article history. Or some page would randomly blank out. Or some page would show message like "Aw, sn

Re: boost issue freebsd 8.2 (32 bit) - infinite loop of boost

2011-10-15 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 15 Oct 2011, at 19:38, Waitman Gobble wrote: > Hi, > > I identified the problem - the build script insists on fetching boost from > heanet.dl.sourceforge.net -- for some reason this hangs indefinitely from my > connection. ie, wget > http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/project/boost/boost/1.45

Re: Enlightenment tips and tricks

2011-10-15 Thread Allen
On 9/19/2011 2:57 PM, Open Slate wrote: > After using Gnome for awhile I am giving Enlightenment a try. Loved it many > years ago but it consumed a lot of resources, the current version does not > appear to have that limitation. I use Enlightenment and Love it. I'm not one of those people who ever

Re: Do you find chrome on FreeBSD buggy?

2011-10-15 Thread John Levine
I've had the same problem with recent versions on amd64 8.2. The versions at http://chromium.hybridsource.org/ work much better. They cost a little money but it's worth it. R's, John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.or

Re: Do you find chrome on FreeBSD buggy?

2011-10-15 Thread Andre Goree
On Sat, 15 Oct 2011 12:27:57 -0500, Yuri wrote: I keep seeing some artefacts, like text selection isn't cleared by clicking anywhere else. Or when some strange (Unicode) symbol shows up, for example on wikipedia article history. Or some page would randomly blank out. Or some page would sho

Re: boost issue freebsd 8.2 (32 bit) - infinite loop of boost

2011-10-15 Thread Waitman Gobble
Hi, I identified the problem - the build script insists on fetching boost from heanet.dl.sourceforge.net -- for some reason this hangs indefinitely from my connection. ie, wget http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/project/boost/boost/1.45.0/boost_1_45_0.tar.bz2resolves and connects but never transfers

Do you find chrome on FreeBSD buggy?

2011-10-15 Thread Yuri
I keep seeing some artefacts, like text selection isn't cleared by clicking anywhere else. Or when some strange (Unicode) symbol shows up, for example on wikipedia article history. Or some page would randomly blank out. Or some page would show message like "Aw, snap" meaning some kind of failur

Re: ports/distfiles via NFS or SSH

2011-10-15 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Peter Kryszkiewicz writes: > I have several machines networked using NFS mounts or SSH and scp. Only one > machine has internet connectivity - a laptop (machine vbear) with a wireless > card (I'm in a temporary location for a few weeks and only wireless is > available here). > > I tried to mount

Re: Very large swap

2011-10-15 Thread Eduardo Morras
At 07:08 14/10/2011, Dennis Glatting wrote: This is kind of stupid question but at a minimum I thought it would be interesting to know. What is the limitations in terms of swap devices under RELENG_8 (or 9)? A single swap dev appears to be limited to 32GB (there are truncation messages on bo

Re: Dennis Ritchie has died. A suggestion

2011-10-15 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 11:43 PM, mikel king wrote: > > On Oct 13, 2011, at 4:38 PM, Roland Smith wrote: > >> With the recent death of Dennis Ritchie, we've lost one of the giants on >> whose >> shoulders we are standing. But rather that mourn his passing, I think it >> would >> be proper to rem

portsnap fails: look: tINDEX.new: File too large

2011-10-15 Thread Hartmann, O.
Since today's morning I receive on every box this message shown below while doing a 'portsnap fetch'. What's wrong and how to repair? Regards, Oliver Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 5 mirrors found. Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap1.FreeBSD.org... done. Fetching snapshot metadata.

Re: Dennis Ritchie has died. A suggestion

2011-10-15 Thread Thomas Mueller
FreeBSD needs to acknowledge its history, and C has been and still is a critical part. Dennis Ritchie's role deserves to be acknowledged. Tom ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: Very large swap

2011-10-15 Thread perryh
Dennis Glatting wrote: > This is a proof-of-concept project ... > I am doing it on the cheap ... > > I have committed to the project five machines. Three run over > clocked Phenom II x6 processors with 16GB of RAM, 1TB disk for > the OS, 1TB disk for Junk, and a 3-2TB disk RAIDz array ... > These