Re: flash drive question -- can it be incompatible with FreeBSD

would have a really hard time preventing format under all operating systems, but of course I'm only guessing there. HtH, Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: su: not running setuid

? Or add user uname with UID 0? Regards, Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is it difficult to move from Linux?

Donovan R. Palmer wrote: I have saved many of your emails for future reference. Hi Donovan, Welcome to the list. There's no need for you to store the emails, since they're all archived at http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/ anyway. :) Regards, Adam J Richardson

Re: Portupgrade used to be fun!!!

. The solution that worked for me was this: 1. Force uninstall scrollkeeper. 2. Manually install rarian. 3. pkgdb -F to fix the stale links to scrollkeeper. 4. Restart the portupgrade process. HtH, Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: how can i install gnome2 through console

it to support Gnome. Regards, Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What kind of audio device is this?

on uaudio0 which is every bit as dull as yours. By the way I don't have a /dev/dsp either. It doesn't seem to be required. HtH, Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Should I just go ahead on 7.0?

my src-supfile from RELENG_6 to RELENG_7 and build/install world/kernel as normal, right? I /need/ that wpi driver... :) Nervously, Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: thunderbird eats all memory and dies

something to do with XUL - Firefox chugs on my (reasonably) beefy systems too. It's too pretty to delete though. :/ Regards, Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: STILL cannot login as kline!

make you [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perhaps the system doesn't like this kind of thing. Is it possible that kline is some sort of reserved word (eg. k-line)? Does it still fail if you change to another user, perhaps garyk? HtH, Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd

Re: Ports problem

/X11R6 /usr/X11R6-2 # ln -s /usr/X11R6-2 /usr/X11R6 # make install Regards, Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Botched X.org upgrade, need help

that you have to install 1) Xorg, 2) mesa-demos, 3) nVidia driver, in that order (assuming you want mesa-demos, of course). Regards, Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Ports problem

RW wrote: On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 13:39:28 + Adam J Richardson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Desmond Chapman wrote: /usr/X11R6 exists, but it is not a symlink. Installation cannot proceed. This looks like an incompletely removed old version of X. In the current version, /usr/X11R6 must be a symlink

Re: Congratulations

Chris wrote: ... Does that mean I have to share the winnings with everyone on the list?! Yes. Hurry up, I'm broke. :P Regards, Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: strange error when building cups

execution' is interesting. Do you use some sort of load balancer? HtH, Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Should I just go ahead on 7.0?

Garrett Cooper wrote: Adam J Richardson wrote: Garrett Cooper wrote: You should be fine now (pending any bugs found in the beta/release process), because 7-CURRENT's source has been essentially frozen since August I believe.. -Garrett Hi Garrett, It should be ok to upgrade straight from

ReiserFS and /etc/fstab: rw or ro?

this, but can't find anything recent on FBSD and ReiserFS.) TiA, Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: porteasy vs portupgrade

and had to upgrade all my apps when I'd installed them. :/ Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Upgrade xorg 6.9 to 72

database. [Apologies if this was asked already - I haven't read the list for a while.] Adam J Richardson ps. monju-bosatsu# uname -a FreeBSD monju-bosatsu.dreamtrack.dnsalias.com 6.2-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p3 #0: Thu Apr 19 12:37:39 BST 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MONJU i386

Re: porteasy vs portupgrade

. Running sudo pkg_cutleaves -x is my idea of a good time. I'm definitely a minimalist. BTW: Miguel, you should try portmaster as well as portupgrade and see which you prefer. Don't listen to our ramblings. There is no right choice here. Adam J Richardson

Re: usb driver for use with kmobiletools and nokia

, but that might be a bit out of date since the GENERIC config contains pretty much everything now. Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: porteasy vs portupgrade

got mad with portupgrade. It's great that it has no dependencies, but I didn't like it at all. Can't remember why - it just didn't work for me. I think portupgrade probably ruined me with things like portversion and pkg_deinstall. I'm too lazy for portmaster. Adam J Richardson

Re: recover corrupt 6.2 installation

If you have a friend with a CD burner, how about using FreeSBIE? At least that will get you a working FreeBSD system to work with. Then you can examine the drive further. Might be a good idea to mount the damaged drive read only, so you don't do further damage. HtH, Adam J Richardson

Re: panic : swap_pager

Michael Lucas. :P HtH Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: porteasy vs portupgrade

Hi Fergal, Ack! I mean Feargal! Sorry... Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: stop portmanager from building mysql-client-4.1.22

server might be screwing thing up. Ypu might try this also: IGNORE|databases/mysql4*| That should prevent any version '4' of mysql being build. How about the HOLD_PKGS section in /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf? Does portmanager pay attention to pkgtools.conf? HtH, Adam J Richardson

Re: ICH8R and SATA drives at boot

reboots for me. And FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p3 doesn't start the second CPU, for some reason. So you're not alone in having unreasonable and uncooperative hardware. These things just don't bother me enough to get me talking about it much. [It's FreeBSD! Who reboots? :D ] Adam J Richardson

Re: porteasy vs portupgrade

there has shares in a company that manufactures replacement r keys... -fr Heh. :D Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Xvnc query to gdm failing

nobody has no access rights to gdm? The only problem is, I can't seem to find gdm.conf. It doesn't exist on the system. The command sudo find / | grep gdm.conf yields nothing. Where is it storing its settings if not in gdm.conf? Adam J Richardson

Re: Xvnc query to gdm failing

in error. Whoops! :D No luck with Xvnc/gdm yet. I tried setting the gdm user to nobody as well, but it hasn't helped. I'll go back to this tomorrow, my brain hurts. I'll get on with some nice simple Apache chrooting instead. Thanks, Adam J Richardson

Re: USB Mouse not Working

some daemon before starting X... what was it now... devd? usbd? psmd? moused? Something like that, anyway. And I had to specify the mouse port IIRC. You know, something like moused -p /dev/ums0. Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: USB Mouse not Working

spindle, and to unreel the cable you have to tug on the cable. Not the best design since the cable is very thin and has taken damage over time. Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: oops, what have i done!

any problems [yet]. Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: USB Mouse not Working

on a little spindle, and to unreel the cable you have to tug on the cable. Not the best design since the cable is very thin and has taken damage over time. Adam J Richardson The mouse is working well on another system. Did you try my little experiment? Chris Maness Trying

Re: Nothing happens with Qemu

] won't work without X. I'm still a FreeBSD newbie though, so I have no idea how X works. I'm still struggling to upgrade my Xorg to 7.2. [Stupid missing OpenGL drivers! :( ] I would try installing X [good luck with that!] and see if that helps. Adam J Richardson

Re: Nothing happens with Qemu

The -vnc option looks like a win, maybe. That sounds good. Doesn't VNC require X, though? Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: autoconf261

, but unless my ports tree is out of date, the latest automake relies on autoconf v2.59 rather than the latest autoconf, v2.61. Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Binding dhclient to a particular network interface

a static IP to fxp0, I can revert to DHCP by typing: $ sudo dhclient fxp0 which does some DHCP magic and gets a lease. If I take ndis0 down I find I have to run /etc/netstart again to get it back up, but you didn't want to know that. HtH Adam J Richardson

Xvnc success! But Xfce4 settings different

Adam J Richardson wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to use VNC to log into my FreeBSD laptop from another laptop [why? to learn how]... gdm... Xvnc... xinetd... blah... blah... I finally managed to log in using Xvnc and gdm. This is awesome. I'll be happy for days now. :D Here's how: I found I

Re: XEN questions

to run an identical copy of my laptop on my laptop... :P If Xen doesn't have a cloning tool, perhaps you can use the VMware cloning tool and tweak the clone to run under Xen? After all, VMware can use Qemu disks and Virtual PC can use VMware disks, so it might work. HtH, Adam J Richardson

Re: Binding dhclient to a particular network interface

modem). Is there a dhclient.conf somewhere in your /etc? That would surely hold the answer. Possibly editing /etc/rc.d/dhclient or /etc/netstart might help? I'm at the edge of my FreeBSD knowledge and in danger of falling off, so I'll stop with the suggestions now. :) Adam J Richardson

Re: Root access loggin

destruction. Likely you'd have at least some evidence of his behaviour. Of course your email box would fill up quickly. Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Cannot post because of spamassassin blocking my mail

their own email server, so you could get a private email address? Or does your ISP not supply you with a private email address? I don't know for sure, but I think SpamAssassin would label any publically accessible email server as possible spam source. That's what I'd do, for sure. Regards, Adam J

Re: DOH! ata_alloc_request failed!

Bruce Caruthers wrote: On Tue Jul 31, 2007, Bruce Caruthers wrote: Um... should I be concerned? Hi Bruce, I've found wherever hard disks are doing anything suspicious, such as operating properly, it's best to be paranoid. Take multiple copies quick is my advice. Adam J Richardson

Re: difficulties remove stale dependency

systems. Just that one - no idea why. Anyway, I find including option -O allows most things to ignore stale links, including portupgrade. Oh - did you try installing portupgrade-devel and not portupgrade? That helped me out of a hole once and now I use it for everything. HtH, Adam J

Re: updating multiple freebsd desktops

spends its time rebuilding everything and supplying it to the staging server, which is a repository for the latest builds. Pretty cool huh? Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Cleartype-similar?

To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Roger, I believe you are after FreeType. Should be in the ports tree. Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: xorg update (not) - configuration for ports

in your portsmanager config, or HOLD_PKGS in pkgtools.conf if you prefer portupgrade. Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: cookbook for using gutenprint

Neil Short wrote: has anybody written - or has anybody considered writing - a cookbook for using gutenprint on FreeBSD? Hi Neil, Why not write one yourself? That's the surest way to learn. Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Nano issue

and the like. If there's a port named ncursesw or libncursesw, I would guess that's your missing library right there. HtH, Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: portsdb and cvsup

. It's an easy one to remember, because as Dru said in that article, you may be thinking something similar at the time. ;) Regards, Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Bizzare routing table entry.

for converting that four byte dot-delimited group into an integer, though, so I can't tell you what number it is. Perhaps you can Google the algorithm and do the math to figure out what it is. HtH, Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Convince me

, but the file system was too unstable. Then I stumbled across FreeBSD and knew I was home. :P Anyway, I've rambled on for far too long. Someone should stop me when that happens. :) Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: cheap (supported) wifi card

and the Belkin F5D7 series, such as the F5D7051 USB key or the F5D7000 cardbus card. They're all cheap. They do a, b and g. I'm not sure about n, though. HtH, Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Convince me, please! - too much about GUI

. Perfectly good computers are often found within.] Most of my CRT monitors come from skips. There's no shame in skipdiving when you can't afford hardware. :) Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Convince me, please!

. I was able to use M$ Excel to peek inside it at the data. Unfortunately when I did that I locked absolutely everyone in the company out of the database at the same time. Heh. There's an example of a program that's old and sucks. Adam J Richardson

Re: Easy switch to xorg 7.2?

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Problem: Apache chroots but MySQL doesn't

exist. I don't think the chroot binary itself is a problem as it started Apache just fine. So, I'm out of ideas. Help please? TiA, Adam J Richardson ps. I always forget this bit: %uname -a FreeBSD my.server.com 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 12 10:40:27 UTC 2007 [EMAIL

Re: Hello!

. Whoops. Sorry all. Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: The Elephant file system

or after 2001? I have no idea.] Sounds like a neat idea, as long as it doesn't become the main file system, because it definitely isn't for me. I have small hard drives and no money. Disk space is definitely a scarce resource for me. Sigh. Adam J Richardson

Re: Hello!

Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 11:24:01 +0200 From: Branko Vukelic [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Adam J Richardson [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you allow me, a BSD noob, to take part... ;) I'd say FreeBSD is a wolf, and DesktopBSD is definitely a dog (as in domesticated wolf). By taming the wolf for desktop use (I'm

Re: NFS /etc/exports question..

for symlinks? NFS doesn't like symlinks for some reason. That held my /etc/exports up for a while. HtH, Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

VMware Player 2 Linux on 6.2-RELEASE

repository or building ports. TiA, Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: portupgrade and make options

unsophisticated for the 'scalpel' approach. I still wield 'Club of Noobiness +3'. :P HtH, Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: portupgrade and make options

. Or is it distcc? I think it's ccache. Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: VMware Player 2 Linux on 6.2-RELEASE

on the slower machine. :) Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Installation Disc Won't Boot

as compared to others. It could be that you've just got a bad batch of discs. Here's another thought, why not try making a copy of your FreeBSD 5.4 install disc? That should indicate whether the fault appears at download time or burn time. HtH, Adam J Richardson

Re: best way to keep track of new developments

though. HtH, Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Installation Disc Won't Boot

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I burned another copy of the iso in FreeBSd with burncd using: burncd -f /dev/acd1 6.2-RELEASE-i386.iso fixate and it booted just fine. Thanks for all of your suggestions and advice. Now I will be spending the better part of the weekend doing the installation of

Re: circumventing a powermac/NAT router

then. When it comes to security, a good analogy might be: you can't run faster than the wolf, so just try to run faster than your friend. HtH, Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: dmesg: this is a bug [ath pccard... ok on 6.1 600mhz laptop, same card *no* dmesg at all on 6.2 hp laptop]

, rather than freebsd-questions? HtH, Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 191, Issue 37

actually looks pretty severe to me. I'd run some diagnostics on da3, like Spinrite for instance. Or just replace da3, if it's something easily replaceable like a USB stick. HtH, Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: cheap (supported) wifi card

chipset. That was wrong. Apologies. It's actually a Broadcom chip. Regards, Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Fwd: Re: What is a 'normal' amount of un-solicited connection attempts?]

by the spoofed datagrams, maybe you're being used as a reflection attack server. HtH, Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 191, Issue 37

Awesome. Btw, it's customary to copy all messages to the list in case they help some future BSDer browsing the archives. Just so ya know. ;) Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Ethernet controllers

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Re: Podcast management software?

I've seen yet. :| Hey, maybe your recommendation supports the Zen V [or, at a pinch, the Zen Nano Plus]. Regards, Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: Ethernet controllers

the trackless plains of the web. Regards, Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ssh2 login with public key - not working

PasswordAuthentication no to /etc/ssh/sshd_config? [At the server end, Captain Obvious prompts me.] I'll check one of my old systems later but I think that's it... HtH, Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Strange rsync issue

it too. :/ HtH, Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Migrating from reiserfs to ext3

it to avoid the tedium alone. 180GB... a 200GB HDD shouldn't be that expensive, although I grant it's been a while since I bought a HDD. Perhaps a geek friend has a spare HDD you can borrow? HtH, Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: re(4) driver FreeBSD 6.2 problem

. This might be your explanation, if you are serving large and popular files: http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/newbies/2004-11/0019.html According to the post, you don't have to worry about mbufs. HtH, Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions

Re: ssh2 login with public key - not working

to be using some sort of key agent. Which is highly annoying IMO, but then you can always use PuTTY instead of ssh. HtH, Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: a quick jails question

Jonathan Horne wrote: will a NFS server run in a jail? im guessing no, that it falls into the funny services category (like snmp) that wont run right in a jail. thanks, Hi Jonathan. Forgive my curiosity, but why would you run NFS in a jail? Regards, Adam J Richardson

Re: /usr/ports portupgrade when only using packages

you could delete all executables matching port*, but that might be going too far. You could get rid of two of those error messages by doing a: # mkdir /usr/ports Regards, Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: /usr/ports portupgrade when only using packages

Mel wrote: On Wednesday 05 September 2007 20:34:56 Adam J Richardson wrote: Well, that's easy... # rm -R /usr/ports Saves you a load of disk space, too. The only downside is you get slightly older versions of software with packages. Oh, and don't use portsnap, it'll undo that rm -R for you

Re: firefox 2.0.0.6 build fails: missing pangox.h

to build Firefox... took me a week to figure it out. In summary, just comment out any NO_X and WITHOUT_X11 lines in the locations Mel suggested. Then remove, rebuild and reinstall Pango. After that's done Firefox should build properly. HtH, Adam J Richardson

Re: Sony Ericsson: (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): NOT READY asc:3a, 0 (repeated)

are all using 6.2-RELEASE-p7, which is the same as RELENG_6_2, I think? I'm not sure about that. [I can't check with my build server since I managed to trash my last Windows installation, leaving me without a VMware Player 2 to run it on.] HtH, Adam J Richardson

Re: firefox 2.0.0.6 build fails: missing pangox.h

Mel wrote: Yeah, I figured he wouldn't be alone in this: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=116236 That makes it nice and clear. Thanks. By the way, can you check your return address? I'm getting mailer daemon errors for fbsd.questions. Regards, Adam J Richardson

SMP only detects one CPU - help?

I was thinking about doing anyway, would fix the problem? Thanks, Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 174, Issue 15

portupgrade from sysutils to ports-mgmt. That's the cause of missing key: categories. Anyway, do this and see if it fixes the problem: cd /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portupgrade make all install clean Hope this helps, Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd

Re: MS Windows emulator or VM with USB support

free and I hear it runs on FreeBSD pretty well. Hope this helps, Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cannot compile thunderbird 2 and firefox 2 from ports

an upgrade? Regards, Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Unable to delete files/directories - bogus user/group ID's

Don O'Neil wrote: bogus user group ID's Hi Don. Could you create the bogus user and group in /etc/passwd and /etc/group and thus log in with rights to those files? Regards, Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: SMP only detects one CPU - help?

20, 2007, at 9:14 AM, Adam J Richardson wrote: Finally, mptable shows what's really going on: MP Config Base Table Entries: -- Processors: APIC ID Version StateFamily Model Step Flags 3 0x11BSP, usable 6 8 30x387fbff 0 0x11

Re: SMP only detects one CPU - help?

have a go with all my kernels, see if one of them boots the unusable AP. I'm off for a couple of weeks though, so I might not respond for a while. Thanks, Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Upgrading from 6.2 to 7.0

The-IRC Hosting Administration Team wrote: There is nothing wrong with obtaining the source code of 7.X and doing a full recompile to upgrade your version sanely. Ah, really? Good news. I heard somewhere there were problems upgrading like that across a major version boundary. Or was it to a

Re: Upgrading from 6.2 to 7.0

probably best off backing up all your data and doing a clean install. Since I'm a crazy with no regard for his data, I'm doing it again tonight, this time to 7.0-RELEASE with a GENERIC kernel. I'll let you know how it goes. YMMV #include disclaimer.h etc. Regards, Adam J Richardson

Re: Upgrading from 6.2 to 7.0

-PRERELEASE i386 GENERIC After: %uname -rims FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE i386 GENERIC So all seems well. I won't mention ports here, I am just concerned with kernel and world for now. That said... YMMV, #include disclaimer.h, etc Regards, Adam J Richardson

Where to have my .so files install?

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