Re: Audio works... and then died ?

board is no longer available for non-KDE applications. Quick fix: $ killall artsd; mplayer / realplay / whatever Keep in touch. - Andrew Sinclair [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: portupgrade system destruction?

Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 04:04:02PM +, Andrew Sinclair wrote: Portupgrade makes a mess at the best of times. A recursive portupgrade is not so clever about dependencies, particually on a live system. On occasion, it even seems to tamper with core libraries which

Re: portupgrade system destruction?

Moved to freebsd-questions by Andrew Sinclair. Eric Anderson wrote: I have a few dedicated servers at a hosting company (about 3 hours drive time away). On one of the systems I ran a 'portupgrade -arR' this morning, and then disconnected (I ran it in a screen session). About an hour later, I

tar fix soon (was: Re: 5.3-RC2 tar breaks operation with (null))

Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 04:51:01PM +, Andrew Sinclair wrote: So a PPT and a PNG were garbled. No big deal. Since bsdtar is now the default Tape ARchiver, shouldn't it include the options of its predecessor? I would assert --ignore-zero on plain files and allow

5.3-RC2 tar breaks operation with (null)

Hi everybodi! At work I use a Windows eXPensive machine to gather information and maintain the web site. I needed to bring some files home and I didn't have time to setup a proper archiver, so I used cygnus tar to pack them uncompressed. I burned this tar dump onto a CD-RW. I didn't just

Re: 5.3-RC2 tar breaks operation with (null)

Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 07:53:15PM +, Andrew Sinclair wrote: Hi everybodi! At work I use a Windows eXPensive machine... I burned this tar dump onto a CD-RW... I'm using the new tar from 5.3-RC2 to read from the mounted CD-RW... It seems to have a problem

Re: [OT] 64-bit PCI in 32-bit slots??? crazy??

Bill Moran wrote: I'm inheriting some hardware. These boards have 64-bit PCI SATA cards jammed in 32-bit PCI slots. Oddly enough, the boxen boot and start Linux (which will be replaced with FreeBSD when I'm done) I guess my question is hardware-related. I mean, I can't believe this worked! Has

UFS problem

I have a question about my filesystem. I have an 80GB ATA HDD with a partition on it full of data. It was in a removable rack which isn't electrically sound and has since damaged the partition. I've tried recovering it with fdisk/disklabel but it reports incorrect block device and won't mount