Could not find package - using ports

Hi everyone, I'm upgrading all the ports I have installed and the command I used is portupgrade -aP, exluding ruby and portupgrade itself. Sad news is that for every single package it tries to fetch it doesn't find anything, so it uses the ports, and it needs lots of time to compile

R: Could not find package - using ports

The reason that portupgrade -P was not using packages is that, by default it fetches packages built against the tree that's on the install disks, so there wont be any for updated ports. You can set portupgrade to fetch packages for the 7-stable development branch (you can google for how

Various X errors (difficult to see)

Hi, I have a freebsd 7.0 release with xorg 7.3 installed on a i386 with a NVIDIA GeForce Go 7300 Official nvidia drivers installed and apparently no problems. In the xorg.0.log file there aren't any errors, glx is correctly loaded etc.. My system starts without X and then I use startx to start X

RE: Various X errors (difficult to see)

You should run startx and redirect the output to a file and check the errors and then try to fix them. To do this try: startx /tmp/somexerrorlogfile 21 Done that! Here-s the first error(s): DCOPClient::attachInternal. Attach failed Could not open network socket DCOPClient::attachInternal.

R: Various X errors (difficult to see)

Is it something wrong in /etc/hosts?? It could be your /etc/hosts or /etc/hosts.allow or you may need to add:  -listen_tcp to your startx commandline. I supposed the problem was there! I'll look at -listen_tcp and at hosts.allow. I have doubts about setting hosts. X used to give me errors about

RE: Various X errors (difficult to see)

This error refers to the artsd daemon already running, or the system thinks this daemon is running. You should open a terminal window and do: ps -ax|grep -i art and see if the artsd daemon is running or not. If it is not, you may need to force it to start. I'll try that later! If I do ps

Tuning make.conf

Hi everyone! I was starting to think to recompile everything for my pc to speed up everything. I started googling and I found almost nothing about how to change make.conf on bsd. Almost everything was about Gentoo, somehow not unsurprisingly. The first thing I noticed is that for linux

RE: Tuning make.conf

You're *really* wasting your time. I supposed that! Your system is doing no cpu cycles at all for most of the time anyway. [cut]Also, makeopts and -pipe just make _compiling_ faster, not the applications themselves!!!. I agree with everything. In any case I think that a faster compiling

RE: Tuning make.conf

Isn't -j depend on how many cpu/core and a faster harddisk / raid? Yes, it is. But with j1 you have only one job running at a time. On a dual core you can really easily running at least two jobs at the same time. Then I've read a number of ideas about which is the relation between the number of

wpi driver patches

Hi, It's still me. I have read past posts about the patches available for the wpi intel3945abg driver found at: http://people.freebsd.org/~thompsa/wpi_releng7.diff I see that it's a diff between the newest version and a version dated:2 february 2008. The wpi drivers I have are from:

RE: wpi driver patches

The patches are for the RELENG_7 sources. I could figure that from the name. Where can I find a list of which version are available and where? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

RE: Tuning make.conf

Thank you for your answers, you have been very clear! I'm still not into recompiling the kernel for the moment! I will have a look at the way to speed up the various ports building with the gmake. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

selected port (devel/root) is marked as broken

Hi, I often use have to use root a program that has been ported to freebsd. If I try portinstall or I go into the directory and do make /make install I get selected port is marked as broken: Does not compile Or maybe a slightly different error with the same meaning.(I'm not on that machine

Re: selected port (devel/root) is marked as broken

On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, Mel wrote: It fails on gcc3 specific classes. FreeBSD 7 uses gcc 4.x, so the problem lies with root developers. Or...you could install lang/gcc34, then: make -DTRYBROKEN CC=gcc34 CXX=g++34 I'm not sure it'll work though. Well, on other OSes they have been compiling

WLan randomly suffering from heavy package lost

Hi everyone. I'm currently running freebsd-7.0-release GENERIC on a dell Inspiron 6400 (i386). I have a problem when networking via wifi. I have an intel 3945abg integrated card and I'm using the wpi drivers. I can connect to my wlan but after one minute or so of perfect connection the network