Clean up / filesystem

2010-10-08 Thread Robert Huff
Caleb Stein writes: > I'm constantly getting the message, ":/ write failed, filesystem > is full", so I did df, and it said that my / filesystem was at > 108%. What files can I delete to free some space? Start by checking the contents of /tmp. Any *.core in /root you don't re

Re: Like it or not, Theo is having a good laugh ..

2010-10-08 Thread Rob Farmer
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 21:47, Jarrod Slick wrote: > @rob, > > Kinda wish you would make a video wherein you read your above statement from > a teleprompter with a green-screened American flag billowing in the > background.  You might want to add in a statement about your deep respect > and admirat

Re: Like it or not, Theo is having a good laugh ..

2010-10-08 Thread Jarrod Slick
On 10/8/10 9:33 PM, Rob Farmer wrote: On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 10:31, Ian Smith wrote: We've had a clear explanation of why it's still there - an historical oversight at worst, pre present levels of paranoia and litigiousness - by Jung-uk Kim, who's been importing Intel ACPICA code into FreeBSD

Clean up / filesystem

2010-10-08 Thread Caleb Stein
I'm constantly getting the message, ":/ write failed, filesystem is full", so I did df, and it said that my / filesystem was at 108%. What files can I delete to free some space? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Like it or not, Theo is having a good laugh ..

2010-10-08 Thread Rob Farmer
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 10:31, Ian Smith wrote: > We've had a clear explanation of why it's still there - an historical > oversight at worst, pre present levels of paranoia and litigiousness - > by Jung-uk Kim, who's been importing Intel ACPICA code into FreeBSD for > five or so years, among large

Boot loader/kernel error

2010-10-08 Thread Hac Phan
Hi, I'm having trouble with a machine that was recently rebooted and will no longer boot correctly. The boot process hangs with the following screen: Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf - The cursor does not move and no other text is displayed. After about 10 minutes, the boot finishes (without t

Re: FreeBSD warning about unclean filesystems which won't be mounted

2010-10-08 Thread Bruce Cran
[re-added freebsd-questions] On Friday 08 October 2010 23:48:38 Robert Bonomi wrote: > Is that the /etc/fstab on the flash card, or the on on ad2s1a ?? > > I supsect the entire boot process is not going the way you 'think' it is. That's fstab from the flash card - the HDD only ever contained /u

Is there a way I can rotate Logitech 960-000111 Quickcam Orbit AF USB Webcam in FreeBSD?

2010-10-08 Thread Yuri
This webcam otherwise works. But it is capable to rotate in two dimensions. I found two projects dov4l and setpwc related to this, but they seem to be outdated. Any way I can rotate this cam? Yuri ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http:/

FreeBSD warning about unclean filesystems which won't be mounted

2010-10-08 Thread Bruce Cran
I was in the process of reinstalling a machine today and had installed 9- CURRENT to a 512MB flash card. After reconnecting an HDD which had dirty filesystems on it and booting I was surprised to see a message: Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad2s1a WARNING: /home was not properly dismounted /

Re: KDE

2010-10-08 Thread Aftab Jahan Subedar
On 10/9/10, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 6:36 AM, Polytropon wrote: > >> I hope it doesn't sound impolite when I mention this, but why not >> give PC-BSD to novice users? Especially if an "out of the box" >> experience is needed, PC-BSD is fine, as it brings all possible >> stu

Re: KDE

2010-10-08 Thread Aftab Jahan Subedar
On 10/6/10, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 1:29 AM, Aftab Jahan Subedar > wrote: > >> Dear colleagues, >> >> Actually I was trying to promote KDE/FreeBSD to my ISP (novice) users >> instead of Windows XP or so, for a virus free journey. >> >> Is there anyone has actually successfu

Re: KDE

2010-10-08 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 6:36 AM, Polytropon wrote: > I hope it doesn't sound impolite when I mention this, but why not > give PC-BSD to novice users? Especially if an "out of the box" > experience is needed, PC-BSD is fine, as it brings all possible > stuff preinstalled and preconfigured. Still it

Re: KDE

2010-10-08 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 8 Oct 2010 15:30:51 +0600, Aftab Jahan Subedar wrote: > Dear Polytropon, > > U were too polite to introduced this pcbsd. it looks very lucrative. I > am gonna start download today and experiment. I had good experiences in the past with providing PC-BSD to users with (1st) beginner-level

Like it or not, Theo is having a good laugh ..

2010-10-08 Thread Ian Smith
I'm finding this absurd thread about the old Intel boilerplate left in http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/contrib/dev/acpica/hardware/hwsleep.c not only wilfully ignorant and spectacularly misinformed, but too close to being offensive - or at least undeservedly disrespectful - by some

Re: [solved - I hope] Re: if_bwn woes

2010-10-08 Thread Eitan Adler
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Paul B Mahol wrote: > On 10/8/10, Eitan Adler wrote: >> Finally, thank to Freenode's ##freebsd I tried wpa_supplicant which worked. >> I can now connect to the internet. >> >> I'd still like to know why I must use the program and I can't use the >> raw commands th

Re: Captcha image does not load

2010-10-08 Thread Jack L. Stone
At 02:17 PM 10.7.2010 -0400, Michael Powell wrote: >Jack L. Stone wrote: > >> Folks: >> >> Please bear with me on this one. Am using FBSD-7.0p9 and PHP52. >> >> Have been using a Captcha protection against robots for a download section >> of the server. It worked just fine since installed for a c

Re: [solved - I hope] Re: if_bwn woes

2010-10-08 Thread Paul B Mahol
On 10/8/10, Eitan Adler wrote: > Finally, thank to Freenode's ##freebsd I tried wpa_supplicant which worked. > I can now connect to the internet. > > I'd still like to know why I must use the program and I can't use the > raw commands though. So OPEN authmode is broken somehow? Send a problem rep

Re: Swap on ZFS

2010-10-08 Thread krad
On 7 October 2010 21:20, Anselm Strauss wrote: > On 10/02/10 17:52, Adam Vande More wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 4:30 AM, Anselm Strauss > wrote: > > > >> Hi > >> > >> I have a virtual server with only 512 MB of memory but still want to run > >> ZFS on it. > >> > >> Has there been any fix

Re: KDE

2010-10-08 Thread Aftab Jahan Subedar
Dear Polytropon, U were too polite to introduced this pcbsd. it looks very lucrative. I am gonna start download today and experiment. Have u used this ? Is Yahoo Messenger or Skype supported? - Jahan since FreeBSD 2.2 On 10/6/10, Polytropon wrote: > On Wed, 6 Oct 2010 01:50:47 -0500, Adam Vande