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Bradley Giesbrecht wrote:
Hello,
I inherited a freebsd installation with a var slice/mount that is to
small and filling up all the time.
What type of info should I provide to allow someone to help me with a
solution?
I would very much
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Anders Gulden Olstad wrote:
Add the size of the g partition to the f partition in the editor. Delete
^^^^^^
the g partition line and save.
I mean of course partition 'e' and 'g'!
Sorry!
/Anders
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Add the size of the g partition to the f partition in the editor. Delete
^^^^^^
the g partition line and save.
^^^
I mean of course partition 'e' and 'g'!
Sorry!
/Anders
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As we know, the console drivers atkbd and sc do not support unicode
(in contrast to linux console drivers, for example).
So we have to use programs able to translate unicode to a single byte
code table. I use my PC successfully in such a manner.
X
You should set LC_CTYPE to ru_RU.UTF-8
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Anders Gulden Olstad wrote:
Given that I don't know what version of FreeBSD you're running, I would
first try to move and symlink /var into /usr
Got to single user mode first. Then copy /var with cpio
# find /var -print | cpio -pvdmu /usr
On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 01:07:05 -0600
Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sunday 17 December 2006 00:40, Bill-Schoolcraft wrote:
Good work Jonathan,
As usual with fellow FreeBSD users, any information about how you
got past your problem is stuff Unix folks like me love to hear.
I
On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 12:35:05PM +0100, dick hoogendijk wrote:
On 14 Dec Bastiaan Welmers wrote:
One nasty thing is that when afterwards installing a package
requiring
gamin, it will fail with errors. To prevent this you could just
fake
the pkg db that gamin is installed however
Lane wrote:
I can, in fact, run a gui root process on the remote machine, now.
Unfortunately I still can't run qemu so that I can get the console. I get:
X Error of failed request: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)
Major opcode of failed request: 25 (X_SendEvent)
Resource id in
freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
2006 December 17 Sunday
What decision junction leads to SELECT DEFAULT DESKTOP in 6.1 install?
I cannot find what decision junction leads to the SELECT DEFAULT DESKTOP
screen as featured in the installation documents and portrayed in
Figure 2-51. Select Default
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Chad Gross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 12/15/06, Tek Bahadur Limbu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 08:34:11 -0500
Chad Gross [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi
Im getting the following error when trying to install ruby-
gnomecanvas2...
=== Vulnerability check disabled, database not found
=== Extracting for ruby18-gnomecanvas2-0.15.0.20061130
= MD5 Checksum mismatch for ruby/ruby-gnome2-all-0.15.0.tar.gz.
= SHA256 Checksum mismatch for
Hi,
I just did portupgrade -a and at the end I see a list with 79 skipped ports.
Why did he skip them, and how can I update them?
Thanks
Karl
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Hi,
in the ports collection I can only find the 0.17 version of libopensync.
How can I install the 0.20?
Thanks
Karl
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Hi,
I compiled amule2 from the port collection but there is no choice for the
languages. How do I add the other languages?
Thanks
Karl
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On Sunday 17 December 2006 04:52, Matthew Seaman wrote:
Lane wrote:
I can, in fact, run a gui root process on the remote machine, now.
Unfortunately I still can't run qemu so that I can get the console. I
get:
X Error of failed request: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)
Major
On Sunday 17 December 2006 04:57, Karl Sinn wrote:
Hi,
I just did portupgrade -a and at the end I see a list with 79 skipped
ports.
Why did he skip them, and how can I update them?
Skipped means they were up to date and didn't need updating. You can force an
update by using the f flag.
Hi,
I'm having a problem with Firefox 2 and opening pdf files with kpdf.
When clicking on a pdf doc in firefox, the window to Open with or Save
pops up. But when I want to select Open with..., there is no way to select
kpdf because i can't get into the proper directory (/usr/local/bin/kpdf) :
On Sunday 17 December 2006 15:41, Beni wrote:
Hi,
I'm having a problem with Firefox 2 and opening pdf files with kpdf.
When clicking on a pdf doc in firefox, the window to Open with or Save
pops up. But when I want to select Open with..., there is no way to select
kpdf because i can't get
On Sunday 17 December 2006 03:53, Nick Withers wrote:
On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 01:07:05 -0600
Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(snip)
one big mistake i made, was building world up to 6.2-RC1. there
was one good article about installing freebsd on an ibm t42 (found
it on google), but
hi...
I would like to ask a wireless problem but has little to do with the
article here...
i want to setup my desktop to use wireless, but there doesn't seem to have a
lot of wireless PCI card supported available, and the supported ones are
quite expensive... I wonder if there is a more updated
On 16/12/06 Michael P. Soulier said:
Stop in /usr/ports/lang/ruby18.
** Command failed [exit code 1]: /usr/bin/script -qa /tmp/portupgrade12405.0
make PORT_UPGRADE=yes reinstall
egrep: /var/db/pkg/ruby-1.8.4_9,1/+CONTENTS: No such file or directory
--- Restoring the old version
Any ideas
I'm attempting to update Audacious without much luck. Last time I ran
into this issue, I simply had to do a make deinstall / make install, and
it worked fine. This time, I'm unable to deinstall the old version.
When running make deinstall from the ports directory I get:
=== Deinstalling
On Sunday 17 December 2006 07:31, Greg Groth wrote:
I'm attempting to update Audacious without much luck. Last time I ran
into this issue, I simply had to do a make deinstall / make install, and
it worked fine. This time, I'm unable to deinstall the old version.
When running make deinstall
Hi there,
I've two machines with a 6.1-RELEASE installed on: one is a sparc64 and
the another is an i386 machine
with a little (and I think not relevant) kernel configuration differences.
If I run ggated on the i386 and I try to connect through ggatec from the
sparc, ggated exits telling me
it
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Karl Sinn wrote:
Hi,
I compiled amule2 from the port collection but there is no choice for the
languages. How do I add the other languages?
Thanks
Karl
If there aren't localized versions in your particular language (see
El domingo 17 de diciembre a las 17:47:13 CET, Beech Rintoul escribió:
On Sunday 17 December 2006 07:31, Greg Groth wrote:
I'm attempting to update Audacious without much luck. Last time I ran
into this issue, I simply had to do a make deinstall / make install, and
it worked fine. This
The automatically installed /etc/resolv.conf
contains the next:
nameserver 82.207.67.2
nameserver 213.179.244.18
Today I discovered that this servers is not servers of FreeBSD.org
or InterNIC, but of my ISP.
I wonder how the system found these IP addresses?
Are these entries created during
Hi all,
bit of a long saga, and a (by now) humble question ..
I reinstalled php5-5.2.0 from its package, after having to deinstall
php 4 and reinstall 5 after the only major glitch on a portupgrade -aPP
on a 5.5-STABLE system upgrading old ports, mostly from 5.4-R days.
[FWIW, portupgrading
Michael P. Soulier wrote:
So, portaudit keeps complaining about openssh, but when I try to upgrade...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ sudo portupgrade -R openssh
[Updating the pkgdb format:bdb1_btree in /var/db/pkg ... - 207 packages
found (-1 +1) (...). done]
--- Upgrading 'openssh-3.6.1_5' to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The automatically installed /etc/resolv.conf
contains the next:
nameserver 82.207.67.2
nameserver 213.179.244.18
Today I discovered that this servers is not servers of FreeBSD.org
or InterNIC, but of my ISP.
I wonder how the system found these IP addresses?
Are
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The automatically installed /etc/resolv.conf
contains the next:
nameserver 82.207.67.2
nameserver 213.179.244.18
Today I discovered that this servers is not servers of FreeBSD.org
or InterNIC, but of my ISP.
I wonder how the system found these IP
In the last episode (Dec 17), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
The automatically installed /etc/resolv.conf
contains the next:
nameserver 82.207.67.2
nameserver 213.179.244.18
Today I discovered that this servers is not servers of FreeBSD.org
or InterNIC, but of my ISP.
I wonder how the
On Dec 17, 2006, at 12:17 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The automatically installed /etc/resolv.conf
contains the next:
nameserver 82.207.67.2
nameserver 213.179.244.18
Today I discovered that this servers is not servers of FreeBSD.org
or InterNIC, but of my ISP.
I wonder how the system
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The automatically installed /etc/resolv.conf
contains the next:
nameserver 82.207.67.2
nameserver 213.179.244.18
Today I discovered that this servers is not servers of FreeBSD.org
or InterNIC, but of my ISP.
I wonder how the system found these IP
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The automatically installed /etc/resolv.conf
contains the next:
nameserver 82.207.67.2
nameserver 213.179.244.18
Today I discovered that this servers is not servers of FreeBSD.org
or InterNIC, but of my ISP.
I wonder how the system found these IP addresses?
Hi there,
I've two machines with a 6.1-RELEASE installed on: one is a sparc64 and
the another is an i386 machine
with a little (and I think not relevant) kernel configuration differences.
If I run ggated on the i386 and I try to connect through ggatec from the
sparc, ggated exits telling me
it
You should probably report this in the freebsd-geom list.
Andrea Montemaggio wrote:
Hi there,
I've two machines with a 6.1-RELEASE installed on: one is a sparc64 and
the another is an i386 machine
with a little (and I think not relevant) kernel configuration differences.
If I run ggated on
Hi,
I am running a FreeBSD6.1 Webserver with mysql but having problems
I found below mentioned quote on the net? But I don't know where to find
this libmap.conf file?
-quote from the NET
For FreeBSD 6 tests show that using libthr gives the best
Michael P. Soulier wrote:
[ ... ]
So, the logs tell me why.
swap_pager_getswapspace(9): failed
swap_pager_getswapspace(9): failed
swap_pager_getswapspace(2): failed
swap_pager_getswapspace(3): failed
swap_pager_getswapspace(2): failed
swap_pager_getswapspace(2): failed
pid 24321 (ruby18), uid
Hi!
I now have to work with several charsets simultaneously.
Naturally, I use UTF-8 in xterm, but whenever I need to
work with some exotic (8-bit mostly) charset, I have to
resort to iconv(1), which is not very comfortable.
Does anyone have any idea of how to solve this problem?
I'm thinking
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The automatically installed /etc/resolv.conf
contains the next:
nameserver 82.207.67.2
nameserver 213.179.244.18
Today I discovered that this servers is not servers of FreeBSD.org
or InterNIC, but of my ISP.
I
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Chuck Swiger wrote:
Michael P. Soulier wrote:
[ ... ]
So, the logs tell me why.
swap_pager_getswapspace(9): failed
swap_pager_getswapspace(9): failed
swap_pager_getswapspace(2): failed
swap_pager_getswapspace(3): failed
Maxim Vetrov :
Hi,
Hello,
I'm running 6.1 on Toshiba notebook SAtellite L100. Get stuck with
auto config of wireless cardbus adapter (D-Link DWL-G650). I want to
load kernel module (if_ath.ko) automatically when I insert it into the
slot. I found that I need /etc/devd.conf to be
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As we know, the console drivers atkbd and sc do not support unicode
(in contrast to linux console drivers, for example).
So we have to use programs able to translate unicode to a single byte
code table. I use my
On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 06:42:46PM +0100, [LoN]Kamikaze wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The automatically installed /etc/resolv.conf
contains the next:
nameserver 82.207.67.2
nameserver 213.179.244.18
Today I discovered that this servers is not servers of FreeBSD.org
or
On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 06:42:46PM +0100, [LoN]Kamikaze wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The automatically installed /etc/resolv.conf
contains the next:
nameserver 82.207.67.2
nameserver 213.179.244.18
Today I discovered that this servers is not servers of FreeBSD.org
or
On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 06:42:46PM +0100, [LoN]Kamikaze wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The automatically installed /etc/resolv.conf
contains the next:
nameserver 82.207.67.2
nameserver 213.179.244.18
Today I discovered that this servers is not servers of FreeBSD.org
or
On 17/12/06, Bradley Giesbrecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
I inherited a freebsd installation with a var slice/mount that is to
small and filling up all the time.
What type of info should I provide to allow someone to help me with a
solution?
I would very much prefer to not install
On Thursday 14 December 2006 00:17, Bastiaan Welmers wrote:
- sometimes I still can't unmount the media even if all KDE windows (and
other programs) are closed. I think some instance of gamin or KDE
keeps running although all windows have been closed. This also
indicates sometimes not
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
More to the point, you might want to find out what is
filling your /var as that is quite a lot of space being used
if you are not running a mailserver.
du -d1 -h /var (as root) should give you some clues.
Allow me to suggest instead:
du /var |
On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 06:47:15PM +0100, VeeJay wrote:
I am running a FreeBSD6.1 Webserver with mysql but having problems
I found below mentioned quote on the net? But I don't know where to find
this libmap.conf file?
You should be able to find it in /etc/. If it doesn't exist then you
--On December 16, 2006 10:07:27 PM -0500 Michael P. Soulier
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just did a portupgrade on mailman, and now it's doing this.
Dec 16 22:05:27 kanga Mailman mail-wrapper: Group mismatch error.
Mailman expected the mail wrapper script to be executed as group
nobody, but the
On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 09:24:04 -0600
Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sunday 17 December 2006 03:53, Nick Withers wrote:
On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 01:07:05 -0600
Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(snip)
one big mistake i made, was building world up to 6.2-RC1. there
was
Hi,
I am trying to upgrade to FreeBSD 6.1. But when I run installworld it
halts when trying to create a symlink: /sys. Just before the error
the script tries to delete the old symlink with: rm -f /sys. But this
doesn't delete the symlink.
No flags are set on /sys.
Anybody got any idea what
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 23:31:58 -0800
From: Bradley Giesbrecht [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: var out of space
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
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Hello,
I inherited a freebsd installation
Hi,
Am Sonntag, 17. Dezember 2006 18:14 schrieb Garrett Cooper:
In general though, I don't think that there's really an easy way for
installing multi-language binaries in FreeBSD at this time though, but I
could be wrong..
Your answer surprises me, because all the amule versions that I saw
Jeppe Bundsgaard wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to upgrade to FreeBSD 6.1. But when I run installworld it
halts when trying to create a symlink: /sys. Just before the error the
script tries to delete the old symlink with: rm -f /sys. But this
doesn't delete the symlink.
No flags are set on /sys.
Beech Rintoul wrote:
On Sunday 17 December 2006 07:31, Greg Groth wrote:
I'm attempting to update Audacious without much luck. Last time I ran
into this issue, I simply had to do a make deinstall / make install, and
it worked fine. This time, I'm unable to deinstall the old version.
When
James Long wrote:
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 23:31:58 -0800
From: Bradley Giesbrecht [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: var out of space
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
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Hello,
I inherited a freebsd
José G. Juanino wrote:
El domingo 17 de diciembre a las 17:47:13 CET, Beech Rintoul escribió:
On Sunday 17 December 2006 07:31, Greg Groth wrote:
I'm attempting to update Audacious without much luck. Last time I ran
into this issue, I simply had to do a make deinstall / make install, and
it
Greg Groth wrote:
Beech Rintoul wrote:
On Sunday 17 December 2006 07:31, Greg Groth wrote:
I'm attempting to update Audacious without much luck. Last time I ran
into this issue, I simply had to do a make deinstall / make install,
and
it worked fine. This time, I'm unable to deinstall the
I've always thought that writing to a file descriptor with O_NONBLOCK
set was supposed to return quickly. Isn't that the whole point of
O_NONBLOCK ?
I have a C program writing to stdout, which is set to O_NONBLOCK,
and the shell redirects stdout to a regular disk file. Dispite
O_NONBLOCK, my
I choose minial installation, NAT, uncheck Attach CD.
I have the ISO on my desktop and throw it on the CD
picture of the virtual pc which is where I've
read it to install to this point so I know that is
working.
It writes holographic and then I get this error
message:
Cannot parse information
In the last episode (Dec 17), Andrew Pantyukhin said:
I now have to work with several charsets simultaneously. Naturally, I
use UTF-8 in xterm, but whenever I need to work with some exotic
(8-bit mostly) charset, I have to resort to iconv(1), which is not
very comfortable.
Does anyone have
El domingo 17 de diciembre a las 21:53:00 CET, Greg Groth escribió:
Beech Rintoul wrote:
On Sunday 17 December 2006 07:31, Greg Groth wrote:
I'm attempting to update Audacious without much luck. Last time I ran
into this issue, I simply had to do a make deinstall / make install, and
it
In the last episode (Dec 17), Dieter said:
I've always thought that writing to a file descriptor with O_NONBLOCK
set was supposed to return quickly. Isn't that the whole point of
O_NONBLOCK ?
I have a C program writing to stdout, which is set to O_NONBLOCK, and
the shell redirects stdout
Jeppe Bundsgaard wrote:
At 22:01 17-12-2006, you wrote:
Jeppe Bundsgaard wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to upgrade to FreeBSD 6.1. But when I run installworld
it halts when trying to create a symlink: /sys. Just before the
error the script tries to delete the old symlink with: rm -f /sys.
But this
I'm about to move my system, I've read the FAQ, I don't want to rearrange
anything. I want to make sure I have the process down correctly before I try,
so I am asking here. I am using 6.0 #2.
First, I hook up both drives. I partition the new hard drive and label it the
same way as the
On Sunday 17 December 2006 18:16, Oliver Iberien wrote:
I'm about to move my system, I've read the FAQ, I don't want to rearrange
anything. I want to make sure I have the process down correctly before I
try, so I am asking here. I am using 6.0 #2.
First, I hook up both drives. I partition the
Where can I ask questions about the web hosting?
I am being asked to set-up a web site that will deliver video, a
youTube wannabe :-) So I'd like visit a forum that discusses such
things
malcolm
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On 12/17/06, Malcolm Fitzgerald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Where can I ask questions about the web hosting?
I am being asked to set-up a web site that will deliver video, a
youTube wannabe :-) So I'd like visit
Hi,
I've been playing around with geli and I was wondering if anyone
managed to actually use the feature which loads the keyfile before the
root filesystem is mounted.
Specifically, to use something similar in /boot/loader.conf:
geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_load=YES
I'm using the newest FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE on our web server (compiled at
last friday, 06-12-15). But it always crashes these days.
The following information displayed on the screen with system crashed.
Fatal trap 30: reserved (unknown) fault
On 12/17/2006 00:02, Jonathan Horne wrote:
well, a day well spent, i finally sat down to get the intel 2200 wireless on
my ibm t42 working. i have sucessfully configured it to attach to my WPA
encrypted wifi on bootup. everything is otherwise working to my
satisfaction.
now, my questions
Hi All,
I installed PC-BSD 1.2 (FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p2) on a PC with i810
chipset. Well, as you might have guessed from the subject, X did not
start, with an error indicating the /dev/agpgart was not present.
AFAIK, agp, drm support is built-in for FreeBSD 6.1 - so I am not sure
why
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