X session over LAN errors

2008-11-05 Thread Alasdair Reed
-version Searching the error messages was not very helpful, it seemed like X could give out these messages for quite a number of reasons none of the available posts seemed to fit my problem. My windows manager is xmonad-0.7_2 Any clues? Thanks in advance, Alasdair pgp2bkL415w1D.pgp

Re: updating from 6.3 to 7, mirror problems

2008-11-03 Thread alasdair
t; [EMAIL PROTECTED]" >> > >yeah I should have noticed the 6.3-STABLE but I did not Ok I see. How do I update from 6.3 STABLE to 7.0 STABLE ? I imagine there is a tool for that? Short of down loading the iso files and doing it from discs. Thanks for your patience!! Regards, Alasdair ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: updating from 6.3 to 7, mirror problems

2008-11-02 Thread alasdair
d-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" What is SV lookup and how do I check this, any particular man page or resource? Where (or how) is my DNS likely to be "broken"? Thanks, Alasdair ___ freebsd-que

Re: updating from 6.3 to 7, mirror problems

2008-10-30 Thread alasdair
>-- Original Message -- >Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 01:33:27 +1100 >From: andrew clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Alasdair Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: Re: updating from 6.3 to 7, mirror problems > > >On 6.3 you should

updating from 6.3 to 7, mirror problems

2008-10-30 Thread Alasdair Reed
ing that does not involve downloading the iso files and burning to CD ? Thanks in advance. Regards, Alasdair pgpfDTuGVRBnc.pgp Description: PGP signature

problem with" freebsd-update-upgrade.tgz.asc"

2008-10-23 Thread alasdair
rity Officer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sub 2048g/A3071809 2002-08-27 Apart from the fact that the file could be dodgy (?) What could be the problem? Have I used the wrong key? I imagine the error msg would be different if that was the case. Thanks, Alasdair _

Open office won't open files Error: GObject-CRITICAL......

2008-09-11 Thread Alasdair Reed
manager is xmonad. I am running FreeBSD 6.3 . I have Googled the error message and cut down versions of it with no result. Any help most appreciated. Regards, Alasdair ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailma

Re: Unable to access certain sites from FreeBSD 6.2 (solved)

2008-08-24 Thread alasdair
they just shutdown the bodgy router for a Sunday rebuild. Will post if situation reverts. Your experience put me on the right track,thanks now happily I can use FreeBSD as my main OS. Regards, Alasdair >-- Original Message -- >Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2008 21:30:18 +1000 >From: Norberto Meijome <

Re: Unable to access certain sites from FreeBSD 6.2

2008-08-22 Thread alasdair
it must be common enough for some part of the OS to handle it without needing any tweaking. FreeBSD seems great, I am in the process of migrating from NetBSD so am quite used to configuring as necessary, does FreeBSD 7 encounter this situation? Regards, Alasdair >-- Original Message -- >

Re: Unable to access certain sites from FreeBSD 6.2

2008-08-21 Thread alasdair
rect? Regards, Alasdair >-- Original Message -- >Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:42:17 +1000 >From: Norberto Meijome <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: FreeBSD Questions ML >Subject: Re: Unable to access certain sites from FreeBSD 6.2 > > >On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:10:19 +1000 >[EMAIL PROT

Re: Unable to access certain sites from FreeBSD 6.2

2008-08-20 Thread alasdair
g expert. Regards, Alasdair Regards, >-- Original Message -- >Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:51:56 +1000 >From: Norberto Meijome <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: Re: Unable to access certain sites from FreeBSD 6.2 > > >On Wed, 20 Aug 2008

Unable to access certain sites from FreeBSD 6.2

2008-08-19 Thread alasdair
t access on the FreeBSD machine. resolv.conf is set up with the addresses of both my ISP's DNS servers. Below are the results of ifconfig -a and traceroute -v to one of the problem sites. Any clues? Thanks in advance, Alasdair %ifconfig -a re0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 options=1b

Re: Simple, graphic, desktop calculator

2004-12-20 Thread Alasdair Lumsden
I don't have a FreeBSD desktop machine to hand, but on Mandrake 10.0 the KDE calculator is installed as "kcalc", part of the kdeutils-kcalc package: [EMAIL PROTECTED] alasdair]$ rpm -qf /usr/bin/kcalc kdeutils-kcalc-3.2-17mdk HTH On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 14:02, edwinculp wrote: &g

Re: FreeBSD and MySQL - mysqld eats CPU alive

2004-08-01 Thread Alasdair Lumsden
On Sun, 2004-08-01 at 04:08, adp wrote: > FreeBSD 4.4, 4.7, 4.9, 4.10 > MySQL 3.x and 4.x > Typical load: 50 qps > With and without replication enabled. > Some sites are SELECT heavy, some are INSERT heavy. > > For one site I think we will be moving from FreeBSD to Linux for the MySQL > servers s

Vinum Raid5 Recovery Problem

2002-10-03 Thread Alasdair Lumsden
maged the stripeset. Unfortunately backup media for backing up 240Gb's worth of data is rather expensive compared to how cheap disks are at the moment, and as such I only have backups of the critical data, so any help will be greatly appreciated! Many thanks. Regards, Alasdair Lumsd