The FreeBSD Diary: 2006-10-15 - 2006-11-04

2006-11-05 Thread Dan Langille
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Urgent Alert : Protect Your Account

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Re: build error when I am upgrading 'gtkhtml-1.1.10_5' to 'gtkhtml-1.1.10_6 (with attachment)

2006-11-05 Thread Dino Vliet
I have gal installed: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/gal2]# pkg_info | grep gal gal-0.24_2 A collection of widgets taken from GNOME gnumeric and evolu gal2-2.5.3_2A collection of widgets taken from GNOME 2 gnumeric But how do I proceed then because this gtkhtml needs:

Re: firefix 2.0 interface font size

2006-11-05 Thread lveax
On 11/5/06, Andy Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just tried upgrading my linux-firefox port and I wondered if anyone else had any problems like this. For the firefox interface itself it is ignoring my font settings in kde-3.5.4. I tried adjusting them in kde and seeing if any tweaking in

pcre vs pcre-utf8

2006-11-05 Thread dick hoogendijk
kde3 packages have a lib depends = pcre and bluefish has a lib depends = pcre-utf8 These two pcre packages mutually exclude each other. How can I install both kde3 and bluefish? -- http://nagual.nl/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 6.1 ++ Solaris 10 6/06 ++

Re: Conflict of linux-realplayer dependencies

2006-11-05 Thread Lena
after this commit (October 26) linux-realplayer depends on linux-gtk2 and linux-gdk-pixbuf which _seem_ to conflict with each other. What should I do? I very much doubt that deleting linux-gtk2 is right approach. I am experiencing the same problem. Deleting Linux-gtk2 definitely does

Re: Installing FreeBSD

2006-11-05 Thread Peo Nilsson
On Sat, 2006-11-04 at 13:55 -0600, Chris wrote: The easy answer? Install GAG http://gag.sourceforge.net/ Thanks for trying to help me. It didn´t work though... Gag46 booted Suse Linux just fine but when it came to FreeBSD 6.1 Release it was the same result as before. (dumped regs...) Amazing

Xine and mplayer will not install

2006-11-05 Thread andy
After a new install of 6.2beta3 and Gnome2.14.2 I am unable to install mplayer. It fails with the following message: === Installing for mplayer-0.99.8_5 === mplayer-0.99.8_5 depends on file: /usr/local/share/mplayer/skins - found === mplayer-0.99.8_5 depends on file:

Re: Xine and mplayer will not install

2006-11-05 Thread Bachilo Dmitry
В сообщении от Воскресенье 05 ноября 2006 17:11 [EMAIL PROTECTED] написал(a): After a new install of 6.2beta3 and Gnome2.14.2 I am unable to install mplayer. It fails with the following message: === Installing for mplayer-0.99.8_5 === mplayer-0.99.8_5 depends on file:

Re: /var corrupted.....

2006-11-05 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Saturday November 04, 2006 at 08:58:08 (AM) Eric Schuele wrote: Example from the man page: rebuild all installed ports portmanager -u -f This might be my silver bullet. Its been running for quite some time but it appears to be rebuilding everything and its full set of

Re: Fetchmail: Error message in maillog

2006-11-05 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Sunday November 05, 2006 at 02:17:43 (AM) jdow wrote: From: Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] stuff Not that this is any particular help but is there some special reason you want to run the mail through postfix rather than simply use a tool like procmail straight from fetchmail for

Re: Xine and mplayer will not install

2006-11-05 Thread IOnut
On Sun, 5 Nov 2006 06:11:29 -0500 (EST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After a new install of 6.2beta3 and Gnome2.14.2 I am unable to install mplayer. It fails with the following message: === Installing for mplayer-0.99.8_5 === mplayer-0.99.8_5 depends on file: /usr/local/share/mplayer/skins

Re: Conflict of linux-realplayer dependencies

2006-11-05 Thread IOnut
On Sun, 5 Nov 2006 12:55:00 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: after this commit (October 26) linux-realplayer depends on linux-gtk2 and linux-gdk-pixbuf which _seem_ to conflict with each other. What should I do? I very much doubt that deleting linux-gtk2 is right approach. I am

Re: Installing FreeBSD

2006-11-05 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Peo Nilsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just can´t get FreeBSD to boot... I have been trying everything I can think of. [snip] Can anyone give me a hint? You need to show the actual errors you get when FreeBSD tries and fails to boot. And the mismatching disk geometry error messages aren't

Japanese ISO9660/Joliet and locale = ja_JP.UTF8 problems

2006-11-05 Thread 文鳥
Hallo everyone, I have the following problems when mounting CDs/DVDs containing Japanese file names which were burned on Japanese Windows XP (SJIS, Multi-byte extended Joliet). If I mount them normally (mount -t iso9660 /cdrom), file names are garbled (ls shows ?, etc). If I mount them using

Re: Installing FreeBSD

2006-11-05 Thread Peo Nilsson
On Sun, 2006-11-05 at 08:11 -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: You need to show the actual errors you get when FreeBSD tries and fails to boot. After choosing FreeBSD 6.1 Release from the GRUB boot menu this is what I get:

Screenshots during installation?

2006-11-05 Thread Yousef Adnan Raffah
Hello, Is there a way I can take screenshots during installation? I know the installer runs sysinstall and I can invoke that from any terminal once the system installed and grab that window from my GUI, but are there other ways of doing it? Thanks signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

hard drive problems

2006-11-05 Thread Donald Creel
My apologies if this is wrong list. I have a Vaio PCG-9251 laptop with a Seagate Momentus 20G hard drive that has been working great with 6.1 release. I had left it powered down for about 5 weeks, then on powerup, it was booting fine until it started bringing the wireless online. I noticed

Re: pcre vs pcre-utf8

2006-11-05 Thread Eric Schuele
On 11/05/2006 04:46, dick hoogendijk wrote: kde3 packages have a lib depends = pcre and bluefish has a lib depends = pcre-utf8 These two pcre packages mutually exclude each other. How can I install both kde3 and bluefish? I'm no authority on this but I was in the same position (with

Re: Installing FreeBSD

2006-11-05 Thread Chris
Peo Nilsson wrote: On Sat, 2006-11-04 at 13:55 -0600, Chris wrote: The easy answer? Install GAG http://gag.sourceforge.net/ Thanks for trying to help me. It didn´t work though... Gag46 booted Suse Linux just fine but when it came to FreeBSD 6.1 Release it was the same result as before.

Re: Screenshots during installation?

2006-11-05 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Sunday, November 05, 2006 a las 05:05:57PM +0300, Yousef Adnan Raffah escribió: Hello, Is there a way I can take screenshots during installation? I know the installer runs sysinstall and I can invoke that from any terminal once the system installed and grab that window from my GUI,

Laptop Wireless

2006-11-05 Thread Rem P Roberti
Would someone point me in the right direction here. I have an old Compaq Presario 1692 that my sister-in-law gave to me after she upgraded. I installed FreeBSD 6.1 and everything is working fine. However, the laptop also came with a Belkin Wireless G (F5D7011) notebook card, and I would

Running Beryl on FreeBSD

2006-11-05 Thread Lonnie Cumberland
Greetings All, I am new to FreeBSD after using various versions (Fedora 5, Gentoo, Mandrake) of Linux for many years and from my research seems to suggest that FreeBSD is faster, more stable, in general better than Linux or Solaris. I am interested on wanting to know if anyone has been able

portmanager question

2006-11-05 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
Hi people, as recently i have problem with firefox, i thought i will try to upgrade my port by my way... as i first run portmanager -s log to see what ports are outdated, and if that port seem critical, I will do portupgrade -R/-r to fix it. it's probably not the best, but I decided to

Re: Xine and mplayer will not install

2006-11-05 Thread Jeremy Messenger
On Sun, 05 Nov 2006 05:11:29 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After a new install of 6.2beta3 and Gnome2.14.2 I am unable to install mplayer. It fails with the following message: We (freebsd-gnome@) don't maintain xine, mplayer and win32-codecs. Please talk to the correct maintainer(s).

Linux extended partition after FreeBSD slice

2006-11-05 Thread Bobby Knight
Hello I want to install Linux in an extended partition after my FreeBSD slice so that I won't loose unecessary primary partitions to Linux because I want to install other OS:es too. Are there any problens with this do you think? This, I think rather old article, recommends to install FreeBSD

Re: Xine and mplayer will not install

2006-11-05 Thread ajm
On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 02:43:29PM +0200, Ion-Mihai IOnut Tetcu wrote: On Sun, 5 Nov 2006 06:11:29 -0500 (EST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After a new install of 6.2beta3 and Gnome2.14.2 I am unable to install mplayer. It fails with the following message: === Installing for

Re: Running Beryl on FreeBSD

2006-11-05 Thread IOnut
On Sun, 05 Nov 2006 11:58:02 -0500 Lonnie Cumberland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings All, I am new to FreeBSD after using various versions (Fedora 5, Gentoo, Mandrake) of Linux for many years and from my research seems to suggest that FreeBSD is faster, more stable, in general better

Re: Screenshots during installation?

2006-11-05 Thread Daniel Gerzo
Hello Yousef, Sunday, November 5, 2006, 3:05:57 PM, you wrote: Hello, Is there a way I can take screenshots during installation? I know the installer runs sysinstall and I can invoke that from any terminal once the system installed and grab that window from my GUI, but are there other ways

Re: firefix 2.0 interface font size

2006-11-05 Thread Marco Beishuizen
On stardate Sat, 4 Nov 2006, the wise Andy Harrison entered: I just tried upgrading my linux-firefox port and I wondered if anyone else had any problems like this. For the firefox interface itself it is ignoring my font settings in kde-3.5.4. I tried adjusting them in kde and seeing if any

Re: WiFi ipw howto?

2006-11-05 Thread Marwan Sultan
Hi, 3945ABG is not supported yet, by any method. not NDIS not any option yet. Also donot try any of the options or drivers in http://damien.bergamini.free.fr/ipw/ it doesnot support 3945ABG even if it says (almost) it supported. Hope someone will showup some day very soon with this

Re: WiFi ipw howto?

2006-11-05 Thread Eugene M. Minkovskii
On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 07:03:49PM +, Marwan Sultan wrote: Hi, 3945ABG is not supported yet, by any method. not NDIS not any option yet. Also donot try any of the options or drivers in http://damien.bergamini.free.fr/ipw/ it doesnot support 3945ABG even if it says (almost)

Determining system info

2006-11-05 Thread Don O'Neil
I am trying to get someones MRTG script that was evidently written for a Linux system of some sort working on 6.1 Here's his script: #!/bin/sh TYPE=$1 PARAM=$2 if [ $TYPE = load ]; then INDATA=`cat /proc/loadavg | cut -d ' ' -f2 | sed 's/\.//g' | sed 's/^0//g'` OUTDATA=`cat

Re: Determining system info

2006-11-05 Thread Josh Carroll
if [ $TYPE = load ]; then INDATA=`cat /proc/loadavg | cut -d ' ' -f2 | sed 's/\.//g' | sed 's/^0//g'` OUTDATA=`cat /proc/loadavg | cut -d ' ' -f3 | sed 's/\.//g' | sed 's/^0//g'` fi uptime | sed 's/.*load averages: //g' | cut -d, -f2 | sed 's/.*\.//g' uptime | sed 's/.*load averages:

DVB card suggestion

2006-11-05 Thread Alin-Adrian Anton
Hi List, I'd like to get rid of my SkyStar2 DVB card (zero support on FBSD) and buy something which is well supported by FreeBSD 6.x. Please let me know if you have knowledge of testedworking DVB cards on FreeBSD, the only important thing is audio/video; IP over MPEG is not needed.

Re: portmanager question

2006-11-05 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Sunday November 05, 2006 at 12:16:52 (PM) Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: Hi people, as recently i have problem with firefox, i thought i will try to upgrade my port by my way... as i first run portmanager -s log to see what ports are outdated, and if that port seem critical, I will do

Re: Screenshots during installation?

2006-11-05 Thread Bill Campbell
On Sun, Nov 05, 2006, Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Sunday, November 05, 2006 a las 05:05:57PM +0300, Yousef Adnan Raffah escribió: Hello, Is there a way I can take screenshots during installation? I know the installer runs sysinstall and I can invoke that from any terminal once the system

Re: Linux extended partition after FreeBSD slice

2006-11-05 Thread perryh
I want to install Linux in an extended partition after my FreeBSD slice so that I won't loose unecessary primary partitions to Linux because I want to install other OS:es too. Are there any problens with this do you think? This, I think rather old article, recommends to install FreeBSD

mountroot

2006-11-05 Thread justin
Hello, I`m trying to boot my freebsd 5.5 system and i`m having some trouble. Every time the machine boots it runs into the mountroot prompt. It cannot find the rootvp file on the /dev/ad0s1a. Everytime i try to mount the /dev/ad0s1a it gives me the mountroot prompt again. also i tryed to type

make problems with amarok 1.4.3_3

2006-11-05 Thread FreeBSD WickerBill
I did a make rmconfig and a make clean in the /usr/ports/audio/amarok before I started again as I've had this same error 3 times now. Anyone have a clue as to what I need to do? here are the last few lines and, Thanks, gmake[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/audio/amarok/work/amarok-1.4.3

Cleanly remove a package

2006-11-05 Thread Simon Gao
Hi, I have a question hope someone can help. When upgrading a package say vsftpd, I used port install. After newer version is installed, I have both newer and older versions being listed if run pkg_info. The newer version works fine. However, I can not run make deinstall after installing the

Re: Cleanly remove a package

2006-11-05 Thread Josh Carroll
When upgrading a package say vsftpd, I used port install. After newer version is installed, I have both newer and older versions being listed if run pkg_info. The newer version works fine. You can use portupgrade instead, which should deinstall the old version, then install the new one. You

Re: Cleanly remove a package

2006-11-05 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Sunday 05 November 2006 12:52, Simon Gao wrote: Hi, I have a question hope someone can help. When upgrading a package say vsftpd, I used port install. After newer version is installed, I have both newer and older versions being listed if run pkg_info. The newer version works fine.

gimp and the gnome update...

2006-11-05 Thread Andy Harrison
Could anyone tell me the proper way to fix this? I tried installing the gimp-2.2.13_2,1 port and here are the relevent error lines: grep: /usr/X11R6/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.la: No such file or directory sed: /usr/X11R6/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.la: No such file or directory libtool: link:

Re: gimp and the gnome update...

2006-11-05 Thread Joe Marcus Clarke
On Sun, 2006-11-05 at 17:12 -0500, Andy Harrison wrote: Could anyone tell me the proper way to fix this? I tried installing the gimp-2.2.13_2,1 port and here are the relevent error lines: grep: /usr/X11R6/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.la: No such file or directory sed:

Re: Cleanly remove a package

2006-11-05 Thread Simon Gao
Thanks, this helps. Simon Beech Rintoul wrote: On Sunday 05 November 2006 12:52, Simon Gao wrote: Hi, I have a question hope someone can help. When upgrading a package say vsftpd, I used port install. After newer version is installed, I have both newer and older versions being listed

Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 154, Issue 17

2006-11-05 Thread Andriy Babiy
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Re: gimp and the gnome update...

2006-11-05 Thread Andy Harrison
http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#q2 Thanks! Using the find/grep suggestion did the trick. -- Andy Harrison ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Question for BSD Professionals

2006-11-05 Thread Gendalf
http://www.nabble.com/file/3980/tunselect.jpg -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Question-for-BSD-Professionals-tf2579724.html#a7191602 Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___

Re: firefox2

2006-11-05 Thread Michael Johnson
On 11/5/06, Andriy Babiy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I wanted to thank to everyone who advised me on how to avoid firefox2 core dump issue. The version of nspr was the lastest. When I disabled an optimization flags in make.conf, re-compiled the kernel, and portupgrade -f firefox, I got

Re: Xine and mplayer will not install

2006-11-05 Thread Kevin Oberman
Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2006 06:11:29 -0500 (EST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] After a new install of 6.2beta3 and Gnome2.14.2 I am unable to install mplayer. It fails with the following message: === Installing for mplayer-0.99.8_5 === mplayer-0.99.8_5 depends on

Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 154, Issue 18

2006-11-05 Thread Oliver Iberien
On Sunday 05 November 2006 14:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 5 Nov 2006 12:55:00 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: after this commit (October 26) linux-realplayer depends on linux-gtk2 and linux-gdk-pixbuf which _seem_ to conflict with each other. What should I do?  I very much

Reading crashed SCSI disk

2006-11-05 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, Last week my mail server disk crashed. I restarted the machine with spare hard disk and previous night backup, but I have no backup for the emails received during the last day. I cannot do a low level SCSI verify, it may be that all spare sectors have been reallocated. I cannot run an fsck.

NIC not coming up when Ethernet Cable is replugged

2006-11-05 Thread David Schulz
Hello all, i am having a strange Problem, which was more apparent under FreeBSD 5.5 and 6.0, but still happens to me under 6.1, on different machines with different NIC`s. Basically when during the day something happens to my Machines Network Connection, for example someone pulls out the

Re: NIC not coming up when Ethernet Cable is replugged

2006-11-05 Thread Mailinglists
change of subject,something must have gone wrong when copy and pasting, sorry On Nov 6, 2006, at 9:56 AM, Mailinglists wrote: Hello all, i am having a strange Problem, which was more apparent under FreeBSD 5.5 and 6.0, but still happens to me under 6.1, on different machines with

MAC OS X connection to FreeBSD?

2006-11-05 Thread Lonnie Cumberland
Greetings All, Being a long time Linux user and now looking into moving over to FreeBSD, I decided to so some research on the web to try and get a better idea as to the strengths and weaknesses as compared to other operating systems like Linux (Fedora, Gentoo, etc..), OpenBSD, NetBSD, and

Re: MAC OS X connection to FreeBSD?

2006-11-05 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lonnie Cumberland wrote: Greetings All, Being a long time Linux user and now looking into moving over to FreeBSD, I decided to so some research on the web to try and get a better idea as to the strengths and weaknesses as compared to other

Graphing Load other system params via MRTG

2006-11-05 Thread Don O'Neil
Does any one have an MRTG setup accompanying scripts that graphs system loads, etc.. Via mrtg? What I'm looking to graph is: Traffic on the primary ethernet Open network connections Load averages Memory useage System Uptime CPU usage Disk usage If anyone has some examples they would be greatly

Re: MAC OS X connection to FreeBSD?

2006-11-05 Thread Lorin Lund
Lonnie Cumberland wrote: Greetings All, Being a long time Linux user and now looking into moving over to FreeBSD, I decided to so some research on the web to try and get a better idea as to the strengths and weaknesses as compared to other operating systems like Linux (Fedora, Gentoo,

Re: mysql in production on freebsd 6.1 ???

2006-11-05 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 3 November 2006 at 19:56:00 +0800, ke han wrote: I need feedback from users with mysql 5.0.x (or even 4.1.x) in production on SMP systems. X86_64 Opteron is my platform. I have heard rumors of it not scaling and it crashes and odd errors Have these been worked out in the latest

Re: Graphing Load other system params via MRTG

2006-11-05 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Sun, 5 Nov 2006 20:07:22 -0800 Don O'Neil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does any one have an MRTG setup accompanying scripts that graphs system loads, etc.. Via mrtg? What I'm looking to graph is: Traffic on the primary ethernet Open network connections Load averages Memory useage

Re: DVB card suggestion

2006-11-05 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 5 November 2006 at 22:20:36 +0200, Alin-Adrian Anton wrote: Hi List, I'd like to get rid of my SkyStar2 DVB card (zero support on FBSD) and buy something which is well supported by FreeBSD 6.x. To the best of my knowledge no DVB cards are supported under FreeBSD. I'm

Re: mountroot

2006-11-05 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 5 November 2006 at 21:10:25 -, justin wrote: Hello, I`m trying to boot my freebsd 5.5 system and i`m having some trouble. Every time the machine boots it runs into the mountroot prompt. It cannot find the rootvp file on the /dev/ad0s1a. Everytime i try to mount the

Re: MAC OS X connection to FreeBSD?

2006-11-05 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lorin Lund wrote: Lonnie Cumberland wrote: Greetings All, Being a long time Linux user and now looking into moving over to FreeBSD, I decided to so some research on the web to try and get a better idea as to the strengths and weaknesses as

Re: Fetchmail: Error message in maillog

2006-11-05 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Saturday 04 November 2006 20:08, Gerard Seibert wrote: FreeBSD 6.1 Fetchmail release 6.3.5+RPA+SDPS+SSL+OPIE+NLS. I had been running fetchmail without incident for over a year. I then did something stupid; I updated it. Now, it produces this error message in the /var/maillog file: Nov

Re: firefox2

2006-11-05 Thread Andriy Babiy
On Sunday 05 November 2006 16:44, you wrote: On 11/5/06, Andriy Babiy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I wanted to thank to everyone who advised me on how to avoid firefox2 core dump issue. The version of nspr was the lastest. When I disabled an optimization flags in make.conf,