kdebase4 installation failure

2009-08-19 Thread Alain G. Fabry
While installing kdebase4, I get the following error. What can I do to get this port installed. [ 41%] Building CXX object apps/konsole/src/CMakeFiles/konsoleprivate.dir/konsoleprivate_automoc.o [ 41%] Building CXX object apps/konsole/src/CMakeFiles/konsoleprivate.dir/BlockArray.o [ 43%]

Desktop Install Option

2009-08-19 Thread Sabeeh Baig
So, I've been wondering about something. FreeBSD is a general purpose operating system, even though it has historically only heavily been used on servers. Why is it that FreeBSD doesn't provide a desktop installation, something similar to say Debian's option of Standard Desktop? For those who

Re: [OT] Vim mailing list

2009-08-19 Thread Sabine Baer
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 01:59:05AM -0400, Glen Barber wrote: [...] Google has a Vim group. I'm not sure if you need a Google account or not. Perhaps it might be better to go to Usenet straight ahead. There's a NG comp.editors, mostly about vim. Sorry for jumping in, but I think Usenet is

duplex printing with OOo.

2009-08-19 Thread Gary Kline
Well, this one was/is bizarre. I finally got my Brother 5250 networked printer to print duplex (AKA noth sides :) using % lpr file but from OpenOffice, no matter what I do, it only prints on one side. Has anybody runn ito this before and know how to

Re: [OT] Vim mailing list

2009-08-19 Thread Steve Bertrand
Sabine Baer wrote: On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 01:59:05AM -0400, Glen Barber wrote: [...] Google has a Vim group. I'm not sure if you need a Google account or not. Perhaps it might be better to go to Usenet straight ahead. There's a NG comp.editors, mostly about vim. Sorry for jumping

Re: [OT] Vim mailing list

2009-08-19 Thread Glen Barber
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 2:31 AM, Sabine Baerbae...@t-online.de wrote: On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 01:59:05AM -0400, Glen Barber wrote: [...] Google has a Vim group.  I'm not sure if you need a Google account or not. Perhaps it might be better to go to Usenet straight ahead. There's a NG

Re: Desktop Install Option

2009-08-19 Thread Peter Cornelius
Hi, So, I've been wondering about something. FreeBSD is a general purpose operating system, even though it has historically only heavily been used on servers. Why is it that FreeBSD doesn't provide a desktop installation, something similar to say Debian's option of Standard Desktop? For

Re: Desktop Install Option

2009-08-19 Thread Steve Bertrand
Sabeeh Baig wrote: So, I've been wondering about something. FreeBSD is a general purpose operating system, even though it has historically only heavily been used on servers. Why is it that FreeBSD doesn't provide a desktop installation, something similar to say Debian's option of Standard

Re: Desktop Install Option

2009-08-19 Thread Glen Barber
Hi, On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 1:54 AM, Sabeeh Baigsba...@jhu.edu wrote: So, I've been wondering about something.  FreeBSD is a general purpose operating system, even though it has historically only heavily been used on servers.  Why is it that FreeBSD doesn't provide a desktop installation,

Re: [OT] Vim mailing list

2009-08-19 Thread Matthew Seaman
Steve Bertrand wrote: Am I missing something about posting to newsgroups? My understanding is ISP's don't utilize them anymore because of the ominous unavoidable illegal behaviour. No -- it's not legal problems, which offer no worse consequences than for defamatory postings on blogs or

Re: Recovering files after a crash

2009-08-19 Thread Erik Norgaard
Roland Smith wrote: On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 09:30:15AM +0200, Erik Norgaard wrote: The problem is that I have no idea which files were affected. So, now some questions: First, how do I determine which files were corrupted? And how do I recover these files? From what you have shown it is

Re: please help to uninstall FreeBSD!!!

2009-08-19 Thread Heiner Strauß
Am Mittwoch, den 19.08.2009, 07:59 + schrieb freebsd-questions-requ...@freebsd.org: On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 01:45:27PM -0400, Karl Vogel wrote: On Mon, 17 Aug 2009 17:23:29 -0700, Walt Pawley w...@wump.org said: W As speculation on my part, perhaps the six character limitation

Re: duplex printing with OOo.

2009-08-19 Thread Bill Moran
Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: Well, this one was/is bizarre. I finally got my Brother 5250 networked printer to print duplex (AKA noth sides :) using % lpr file but from OpenOffice, no matter what I do, it only prints on one side. Has anybody runn

freebsd

2009-08-19 Thread BONGANI MANGANYE
I know freebsd is free but i would like to know how much will I pay if I need additional package like updates and other useful software,and can you tell how secure it is how protected i will be if i use freebsd Disclaimer This

Re: freebsd

2009-08-19 Thread Neal Hogan
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 6:42 AM, BONGANI MANGANYE205038...@cput.ac.za wrote: I know freebsd is free but i would like to know how much will I pay if I need additional package like updates and other useful software,and can you tell how secure it is how protected i will be if i use freebsd it's

Re: freebsd

2009-08-19 Thread Erik Norgaard
BONGANI MANGANYE wrote: I know freebsd is free but i would like to know how much will I pay if I need additional package like updates and other useful software,and can you tell how secure it is how protected i will be if i use freebsd FreeBSD is free, and any updates are free. Third party

Re: Desktop Install Option

2009-08-19 Thread Andrew Gould
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 12:54 AM, Sabeeh Baigsba...@jhu.edu wrote: So, I've been wondering about something.  FreeBSD is a general purpose operating system, even though it has historically only heavily been used on servers.  Why is it that FreeBSD doesn't provide a desktop installation,

Re: freebsd

2009-08-19 Thread Daniel Molina Wegener
On Wednesday 19 August 2009 07:42:39 BONGANI MANGANYE wrote: I know freebsd is free but i would like to know how much will I pay if I need additional package like updates and other useful software,and can you tell how secure it is how protected i will be if i use freebsd FreeBSD is released

Re: Desktop Install Option

2009-08-19 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 12:54 AM, Sabeeh Baig sba...@jhu.edu wrote: So, I've been wondering about something. FreeBSD is a general purpose operating system, even though it has historically only heavily been used on servers. Why is it that FreeBSD doesn't provide a desktop installation,

Re: Desktop Install Option

2009-08-19 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 01:54:51AM -0400, Sabeeh Baig wrote: So, I've been wondering about something. FreeBSD is a general purpose operating system, even though it has historically only heavily been used on servers. Why is it that FreeBSD doesn't provide a desktop installation, something

Re: Desktop Install Option

2009-08-19 Thread Matthew Seaman
Andrew Gould wrote: On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 12:54 AM, Sabeeh Baigsba...@jhu.edu wrote: So, I've been wondering about something. FreeBSD is a general purpose operating system, even though it has historically only heavily been used on servers. Why is it that FreeBSD doesn't provide a desktop

Re: freebsd

2009-08-19 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 01:42:39PM +0200, BONGANI MANGANYE wrote: I know freebsd is free but i would like to know how much will I pay if I need additional package like updates and other useful software, Nothing if you install stuff from ports or from any of the many free software products

Re: Desktop Install Option

2009-08-19 Thread beni
Op woensdag 19 augustus 2009 09:18:15 schreef Steve Bertrand: Sabeeh Baig wrote: So, I've been wondering about something. FreeBSD is a general purpose operating system, even though it has historically only heavily been used on servers. Why is it that FreeBSD doesn't provide a desktop

Re: duplex printing with OOo.

2009-08-19 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 07:23:07 -0400, Bill Moran wmo...@potentialtech.com wrote: It works for me, using 3 steps: 1) Use CUPS instead of lpd CUPS brings its own lpd, so in fact you're still using a lpd, even if it's not the system one's. :-) 2) Install a PPD for the printer that knows about

Re: please help to uninstall FreeBSD!!!

2009-08-19 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:22:11 +0200, Heiner Strauß heiner...@yahoo.de wrote: Didn't need lower case at this time. REAL PROGRAMMERS USED FORTRAN http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/real.programmers.html When you're there, don't miss The story about Mel. By the way... we have a Mel on our mailing

Re: Desktop Install Option

2009-08-19 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 05:00:27PM +0200, beni wrote: Op woensdag 19 augustus 2009 09:18:15 schreef Steve Bertrand: Sabeeh Baig wrote: So, I've been wondering about something. FreeBSD is a general purpose operating system, even though it has historically only heavily been used on

Re: Recovering files after a crash

2009-08-19 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 09:59:32AM +0200, Erik Norgaard wrote: Thanks, I couldn't decipher these GEOM_LABEL messages, nice to know that I can stop worrying. But for future incidents, the second question remains: 1. How do I best protect my system from disk errors in case of a crash? One

Re: Desktop Install Option

2009-08-19 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:57:21 -0400, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: FreeBSD is the one that does let users have an option. One of those options is pcBSD. There are others who make up a bundle with FreeBSD as the base OS that already has your GUI and other things built for you -- a

Re: Desktop Install Option

2009-08-19 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 01:54:51AM -0400, Sabeeh Baig wrote: So, I've been wondering about something. FreeBSD is a general purpose operating system, even though it has historically only heavily been used on servers. Why is it that FreeBSD doesn't provide a desktop installation, something

Getting rid of X

2009-08-19 Thread Scott Schappell
In a parallel sort of thread to the current desktop thread, when I installed FreeBSD 7.2 since I had plenty of disk space and memory I installed X, however, I don't need it or really want it. How can I pare that out of the system short of doing a complete rebuild? Scott

Re: Getting rid of X

2009-08-19 Thread Glen Barber
Hi, On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Scott Schappellarc...@silvertree.org wrote: In a parallel sort of thread to the current desktop thread, when I installed FreeBSD 7.2 since I had plenty of disk space and memory I installed X, however, I don't need it or really want it. How can I pare

Re: Getting rid of X

2009-08-19 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 19 August 2009 12:17:10 Scott Schappell wrote: In a parallel sort of thread to the current desktop thread, when I installed FreeBSD 7.2 since I had plenty of disk space and memory I installed X, however, I don't need it or really want it. How can I pare that out of the system

netbooks for freebsd?

2009-08-19 Thread Jeff Hamann
I would like to try some experimental software on a netbook. Can somebody recommend a netbook that can do FreeBSD. Requirements: 1) Need to able to wipe out any ms-windows stuff, get installed, boot up and running within 60 minutes of my time. Download, svn checkouts, etc. not included.

Re: Getting rid of X

2009-08-19 Thread Scott Schappell
On Aug 19, 2009, at 09:19:56, Glen Barber wrote: Hi, You can deinstall the x11/xorg metaport. (Or, pkg_delete -x xorg.) The leftovers can be removed with ports-mgmt/pkg_cutleaves. HTH -- Glen Barber Thanks, Glen and John. I pared out 72 packages. I kept ones that seemed ambiguously

Re: duplex printing with OOo.

2009-08-19 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 05:40:50PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 07:23:07 -0400, Bill Moran wmo...@potentialtech.com wrote: It works for me, using 3 steps: 1) Use CUPS instead of lpd CUPS brings its own lpd, so in fact you're still using a lpd, even if it's not the

Re: Recovering files after a crash

2009-08-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl writes: Is there a FBSD crash guide? Not that I know of. The only guidance that really matter would be make sure you have backed up critical data. No need for elaborate guides. :-) Any data that isn't securely backed up, including offsite, isn't really important

Re: netbooks for freebsd?

2009-08-19 Thread Mak Kolybabi
On 2009-08-19 09:29, Jeff Hamann wrote: I would like to try some experimental software on a netbook. Can somebody recommend a netbook that can do FreeBSD. I've put FreeBSD on an Asus Eee PC before. It worked rather nicely. Just be careful, because the wiki[1] page notes that some models contain

Re: netbooks for freebsd?

2009-08-19 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 09:29:12 -0700, Jeff Hamann jeff.ham...@forestinformatics.com wrote: 1) Need to able to wipe out any ms-windows stuff, get installed, boot up and running within 60 minutes of my time. Download, svn checkouts, etc. not included. I've tired of spending weekend marathons

Re: duplex printing with OOo.

2009-08-19 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 10:00:20 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: It's been years since I tried CUPS; it gives me fits. In short, it has never worked. With modern printers that are not standard compliant, you almost have no way around CUPS. Printers that can do PS don't need

Re: Desktop Install Option

2009-08-19 Thread Al Plant
Sabeeh Baig wrote: So, I've been wondering about something. FreeBSD is a general purpose operating system, even though it has historically only heavily been used on servers. Why is it that FreeBSD doesn't provide a desktop installation, something similar to say Debian's option of Standard

Re: please help to uninstall FreeBSD!!!

2009-08-19 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 17 Aug 2009 17:23:29 -0700 Walt Pawley w...@wump.org At 4:44 PM +0200 8/17/09, Heiner Strauß wrote: [..] Putting the symbol names in one word helped the linker / loader a lot. Live was so easy. Heiner C(one word = 32 bit) .NOT. (some word processor software) As

Re: duplex printing with OOo.

2009-08-19 Thread Gary Kline
Well, after umch mucking around, the Brother 5250DN works with OO and prints in Duplex only if I turn the dialog to OFF where is say Duplex __ [arrows] Now that that's resolved, I can change the printer web page config back to

Re: netbooks for freebsd?

2009-08-19 Thread Al Plant
Jeff Hamann wrote: I would like to try some experimental software on a netbook. Can somebody recommend a netbook that can do FreeBSD. Requirements: 1) Need to able to wipe out any ms-windows stuff, get installed, boot up and running within 60 minutes of my time. Download, svn checkouts, etc.

Re: duplex printing with OOo.

2009-08-19 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:05:19 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: Well, after umch mucking around, the Brother 5250DN works with OO and prints in Duplex only if I turn the dialog to OFF where is say Duplex __ [arrows] Do I understand this

Re: netbooks for freebsd?

2009-08-19 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Al Plant wrote: Jeff Hamann wrote: I would like to try some experimental software on a netbook. Can somebody recommend a netbook that can do FreeBSD. Requirements: 1) Need to able to wipe out any ms-windows stuff, get installed, boot up and running within 60 minutes of my time. Download,

Re: Getting rid of X

2009-08-19 Thread Chris Whitehouse
John Nielsen wrote: On Wednesday 19 August 2009 12:17:10 Scott Schappell wrote: In a parallel sort of thread to the current desktop thread, when I installed FreeBSD 7.2 since I had plenty of disk space and memory I installed X, however, I don't need it or really want it. How can I pare that

Re: netbooks for freebsd?

2009-08-19 Thread Randall Wood
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 10:11:20PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote: Al Plant wrote: Jeff Hamann wrote: I would like to try some experimental software on a netbook. Can somebody recommend a netbook that can do FreeBSD. Too soon to know, but I've just ordered the Starling, a netbook sold by

Re: duplex printing with OOo.

2009-08-19 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 08:28:34PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:05:19 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: Well, after umch mucking around, the Brother 5250DN works with OO and prints in Duplex only if I turn the dialog to OFF where is say

kein Betreff

2009-08-19 Thread Olaf Leidinger
Dear list, I'd like to install FreeBSD 7.2 on my computer for testing purpuse and eventually remove my Linux installation. Using FreeBSD in VirtualBox works fine, so far. I can't install it on my real hardware, as the installation media won't boot:

Re: kein Betreff

2009-08-19 Thread Glen Barber
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 6:08 PM, Olaf Leidingerleid...@web.de wrote: Dear list, I'd like to install FreeBSD 7.2 on my computer for testing purpuse and eventually remove my Linux installation. Using FreeBSD in VirtualBox works fine, so far. I can't install it on my real hardware, as the

Re: netbooks for freebsd?

2009-08-19 Thread Steve Franks
Al Plant wrote: Jeff Hamann wrote: I would like to try some experimental software on a netbook. Can somebody recommend a netbook that can do FreeBSD. I'm displeased with my Lenovo S10. On the upside, all the hardware worked on 7.2 out of the box, after I swapped the internal broadcom wifi

Re: netbooks for freebsd?

2009-08-19 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 19 Aug 2009, Manolis Kiagias wrote: Aspire One (the original one) also works nicely with FreeBSD. If buying a newer model it is best to check it at a shop display or stg, since the hardware has changed and some models may be incompatible (esp. check video card and wireless chipset. The

csh tcsh history missing after reboot FBSD_8

2009-08-19 Thread Al Plant
Aloha, Terminal history gone. I cannot get any recent version of FreeBSD 8.* to keep the csh or tcsh history across a reboot in root or usr. It stays after exit and a new login however. This happens on several machines that previously ran FreeBSD 7* with no issues. One runs AMD64 and one

Flash10 with 8.0-BETA2 and Firefox 3.5.2

2009-08-19 Thread Warren Block
On 8.0-BETA2 with www/linux-f10-flashplugin10 and www/firefox35 installed. As per the Handbook, a soft link in /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins to /usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-f10-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so. nspluginwrapper -a -i runs normally. linprocfs mounted, and nspluginwrapper -l shows

Re: csh tcsh history missing after reboot FBSD_8

2009-08-19 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 19 Aug 2009, Al Plant wrote: Aloha, Terminal history gone. I cannot get any recent version of FreeBSD 8.* to keep the csh or tcsh history across a reboot in root or usr. It stays after exit and a new login however. Does the history stick around if you do shutdown -r now instead of

Re: csh tcsh history missing after reboot FBSD_8

2009-08-19 Thread Al Plant
Warren Block wrote: On Wed, 19 Aug 2009, Al Plant wrote: Aloha, Terminal history gone. I cannot get any recent version of FreeBSD 8.* to keep the csh or tcsh history across a reboot in root or usr. It stays after exit and a new login however. Does the history stick around if you do

Re: csh tcsh history missing after reboot FBSD_8

2009-08-19 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 19 Aug 2009, Al Plant wrote: Warren Block wrote: On Wed, 19 Aug 2009, Al Plant wrote: Terminal history gone. I cannot get any recent version of FreeBSD 8.* to keep the csh or tcsh history across a reboot in root or usr. It stays after exit and a new login however. Does the

Re: kein Betreff

2009-08-19 Thread Tim Judd
On 8/19/09, Olaf Leidinger leid...@web.de wrote: Dear list, I'd like to install FreeBSD 7.2 on my computer for testing purpuse and eventually remove my Linux installation. Using FreeBSD in VirtualBox works fine, so far. I can't install it on my real hardware, as the installation media won't

Re: [OT] Vim mailing list

2009-08-19 Thread Frank Shute
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 01:59:05AM -0400, Glen Barber wrote: On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 12:43 AM, Steve Bertrandst...@ibctech.ca wrote: Apologies up front for the off-topic'dness. I'm thoroughly enjoying my new editor, and swiftly learning and experiencing the benefits. As a matter of fact,