Re: Problem with libpng + Mozilla applications on FreeBSD 8.3
Sometimes placing symlink to the newer version of library instead of older version helps. On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 11:06 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Sat, 27 Oct 2012 00:06:44 +0530, Manish Jain wrote: Hello Polytropon, Thanks for replying. Maybe an update of FF and TB would be sufficient, so it can link to the present (or at least expected) libraries accordingly. Maybe I did not make it clear enough in the original message. The only thing I installed from the installation DVD was the OS and the GNOME2 metaport. Everything else including FF and TB was installed from ports, the tarball of which I downloaded just a couple of days back. I hope you are not suggesting that I build the GNOME2 metaport too from the ports directory : with my internet connection, that really would take me into the next century. Exactly that would have been the preferred solution. :-) You should not manually copy things. At some point, something will crash, and the ports infrastructure cannot take care of it. It's easier to use a port management tool (like portmaster) to deal with installing and updating of ports. For the present issue, it seems logical that I would need 2 versions of libpng : one for GNOME and one for the ports being installed. Having the two versions reside independently in /usr/lib and /usr/local/lib seems to be the only way out. I still must admit that it defeats the purpose of having port management tools. It also blurs the line between OS (/usr/lib) and additional software (/usr/local/lib) directories. However, both directories are used by the linker, so it looks possible (and probably better than messing with symlinks in /usr/local/lib). Problems _might_ occur when updating world. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- Best regards, Alex Alexeev http://twitter.com/afiskon ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Full system update.
The closest equivalent of `sudo apt-get dist-upgrade` in FreeBSD is `pkg_upgrade -a`. This tool is a part of bsdadminscripts package. If you also wanted to upgrade a kernel, look at freebsd-update. But don't forget that in FreeBSD all is not so simple like in Debian. You have to monitor /usr/ports/UPDATING file and release notes for the new branches of FreeBSD. Last, and really not recommended at all, you could use the existing pkg_tools binary packages. This, however, is a trap for the newbies and leads to much wailing and gnashing of teeth. Especially if you try and mix stuff you compiled yourself and the pre-compiled packages. I've been successfully using binary packages (pkg_add -r ...) and ports in the same time for ~3 years. I don't wail and my teeth are OK. What am I doing wrong? On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 11:44 PM, Matthew Seaman matt...@freebsd.org wrote: On 25/10/2012 20:19, Ashkan Rahmani wrote: How I can update system completely some thing like apt-get dist-upgrade in Debian? You can't. With FreeBSD it's always a two step thing, because it has the distinction between the base system and ported software. You probably want freebsd-update(8) for updating the base system, as that's downloading pre-compiled updates, similar (in a very loose way) to apt-get. The man page will answer most, if not all, or your questions. There are other ways: see the Handbook for details, but these all involve compiling the OS from source. Not a bad or particularly difficult thing, but time-consuming. For updating the ports: there's the well established method, which is to update the ports tree using portsnap(8) and then rebuild any out of date ports: use portmaster(8) for that. (There are other alternatives to both those programs, but I reckon those are the best to get started with.) Then there is pkgng. This is a binary package manager -- pretty much the most apt-get like thing in FreeBSD at the moment. However pkgng is brand new, currently the focus of much active development and still considered pretty experimental. pkgng itself works pretty well (even if I say so myself) but what is lacking at the moment is the package building infrastructure to provide it with a comprehensive standard repository of all the software available from ports for all supported architectures and OS versions. If you're running one of the 9.x releases on AMD64 or i386 and pkgbeta happens to contain exactly the package set you want, then you're in luck. If not, then you're back to compiling all the ports yourself and setting up your own repo. Last, and really not recommended at all, you could use the existing pkg_tools binary packages. This, however, is a trap for the newbies and leads to much wailing and gnashing of teeth. Especially if you try and mix stuff you compiled yourself and the pre-compiled packages. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey -- Best regards, Alex Alexeev http://twitter.com/afiskon ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Gimp - problem opening images using URI's
Could you trace gimp using truss utility and upload an output somewhere? On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 11:56 PM, Mike Clarke jmc-freeb...@milibyte.co.uk wrote: Gimp has recently become unable to open images using URI's, e.g.- -- curlew:/home/mike% gimp -c http://www.freebsd.org/layout/images/beastie.png; Failed to connect to socket /tmp/fam-mike/fam- (gimp:27650): GLib-GIO-WARNING **: FAMOpen failed, FAMErrno=3 GIMP-Error: Opening 'http://www.freebsd.org/layout/images/beastie.png' failed: Could not open 'http://www.freebsd.org/layout/images/beastie.png' for reading: No such file or directory -- The above is with gimp-app-2.6.12_1,1 compiled from ports with default options running under FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE, all ports are up to date and there are no missing dependencies. I had similar problems in the past and managed to fix it by adding --without-gvfs to the options in the Makefile but the problem reappeared after a recent upgrade to my ports. The port upgrade didn't touch gimp-app so I assume the problem is caused by some dependency which has been upgraded. I've tried rebuilding gimp-app both with and without my Makefile hack and with and without GVFS in the config options but with no success. The error message above is after rebuilding from a freshly downloaded copy of the port to ensure none of my old edits remained and with the default options in make config. It might be significant that the directory /tmp/fam-mike does not exist. I tried creating it but gimp produced an error Socket directory /tmp/fam-mike has wrong permissions and promptly deleted the directory. Recreating /tmp/fam-mike with permissions 700 got rid of the wrong permissions message but still failed to cure the problem. Google searches haven't come up with anything directly relevant to my problem but do imply that the problem could be related to devel/gamin. Could anyone offer any suggestions on how to go about resolving this? -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- Best regards, Alex Alexeev http://twitter.com/afiskon ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
`pkg_add -r mongodb` failed
Hello. I have a problem with MongoDB installation: asus# pkg_add -r mongodb Fetching http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-9-stable/Latest/mongodb.tbz... Done. === Creating users and/or groups. Using existing group 'mongodb'. Creating user 'mongodb' with uid '922'. pw: user 'mongodb' already exists pkg_add: command 'if ! /usr/sbin/pw usershow mongodb /dev/null 21; then echo Creating user 'mongodb' with uid '922'.; /usr/sbin/pw useradd mongodb -u 922 -g 922 -c MongoDB pseudo-user -d /var/db/mongodb -s /bin/sh; else echo Using existing user 'mongodb'.; fi' failed # cat /etc/passwd | grep mongodb mongodb:*:922:922:MongoDB pseudo-user:/var/db/mongodb:/bin/sh # cat /etc/group | grep mongodb mongodb:*:922: # id mongodb id: mongodb: no such user # pw userdel mongodb pw: no such user `mongodb' # uname -a FreeBSD asus.home 9.0-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE-p3 #0: Tue Jun 12 01:47:53 UTC 2012 r...@i386-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 It seems that binary package is broken. -- Best regards, Alex Alexeev http://twitter.com/afiskon ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: `pkg_add -r mongodb` failed
Thanks! BTW, MongoDB port has the same error: === Installing for mongodb-2.0.6_1 === Generating temporary packing list === Checking if databases/mongodb already installed === Creating users and/or groups. Using existing group `mongodb'. Creating user `mongodb' with uid `922'. pw: user 'mongodb' already exists *** Error code 74 Stop in /usr/ports/databases/mongodb. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/databases/mongodb. === Installation of mongodb-2.0.6_1 (databases/mongodb) failed === Aborting update Terminated === You can restart from the point of failure with this command line: portmaster flags databases/mongodb How should one report errors in such cases? On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 4:04 PM, Matthew Seaman matt...@freebsd.org wrote: On 21/10/2012 12:45, Alexandr Alexeev wrote: Hello. I have a problem with MongoDB installation: asus# pkg_add -r mongodb Fetching http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-9-stable/Latest/mongodb.tbz... Done. === Creating users and/or groups. Using existing group 'mongodb'. Creating user 'mongodb' with uid '922'. pw: user 'mongodb' already exists pkg_add: command 'if ! /usr/sbin/pw usershow mongodb /dev/null 21; then echo Creating user 'mongodb' with uid '922'.; /usr/sbin/pw useradd mongodb -u 922 -g 922 -c MongoDB pseudo-user -d /var/db/mongodb -s /bin/sh; else echo Using existing user 'mongodb'.; fi' failed # cat /etc/passwd | grep mongodb mongodb:*:922:922:MongoDB pseudo-user:/var/db/mongodb:/bin/sh # cat /etc/group | grep mongodb mongodb:*:922: # id mongodb id: mongodb: no such user # pw userdel mongodb pw: no such user `mongodb' # uname -a FreeBSD asus.home 9.0-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE-p3 #0: Tue Jun 12 01:47:53 UTC 2012 r...@i386-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 It seems that binary package is broken. At a guess there are added user records in /etc/master.passwd which haven't been processed into /etc/pwd.db This will confuse applications trying to use pw(8). Try running: # pwd_mkdb -p /etc/master.passwd Now 'id mongodb' should acknowledge the existence of the mongodb account, and you should be able (re)install the mongodb pkg without it complaining so much. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey -- Best regards, Alex Alexeev http://twitter.com/afiskon ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
