After years away from BSDLand, I am attempting an install. I
used a partitioning tool to create an "unallocated" partition on
my olde eMachine Windows 7 box, and then burned version 8.0
boot.iso to a CD and booted the old box with it.
Btw, what is boot-com.iso for?
Do I need to get some blank
On Mon, 25 Feb 2019, Michael van Elst wrote:
It's probably trying to use a graphics card that isn't
supported.
Just for the record, here is what's in that old box:
nVidia:
GeForce 6150SE nForce 430
This will sound pretty lame, but I have not been able to find a
doc listing supported hardwar
On Tue, 26 Feb 2019, Martin Husemann wrote:
Can you please try 8.0_STABLE instead of the 8.0 releaes?
Well, I know I can do that much, but can you help me find the
files for that release, please?
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On Tue, 26 Feb 2019, Martin Husemann wrote:
https://nycdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-8/latest/
It behaves in a manner identical to the 8.0 boot.iso I first
tried.
I did get to the uc menu, but I haven't a clue as to what the
video device is called /dev, so I am stuck there now.
I
On Tue, 26 Feb 2019, Martin Husemann wrote:
You can get the latest from the daily builds:
https://nycdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-8/latest/
As I reported, there was no advance with this iso file over the
one I first tried. However, I stayed in the nycdn file server
and had very good
On Thu, 28 Feb 2019, Michael van Elst wrote:
load the MBR of a drive (hit F1.. or 'a'.. for the serial
console)
F1 set the internal CD drive of the machine spinning for
what seemed an eternity and then produced the message:
BOOTMGR IS MISSING
Ctrl-Alt-Del to reboot.
Any thoughts as to how
I have held off replying because I wanted to have news of
success to report back. Not there yet, but plugging away.
The aim of a dual boot desktop computer has given way to just a
normal NetBSD single-system machine, and toward that end I am
wiping my hard drive clean for the install.
Howeve
Due I think to some fuzziness in my ancient KVM switch I lost
contact with the new netbsd machine just while I was finishing
up on the config menu that concludes the install routine, you
know, the one which asks about time zone and things like pkgin
and pkgsrc. I would like to get back into tha
On Sat, 2 Mar 2019, Greg Troxel wrote:
I think he's asking how to get into sysinst from an installed
system.
Yes, that was what I wanted to ask, but now, alas, in the clear
light of morning, I see that my system is not completely
installed e.g. I have no swap and no /home directory. I will
The big picture: I am now configuring my new amd64 ver.
7.1.2 install on that recalcitrant old eMachine box about
which I have lately so plagued this list.
One priority of course is email. While working in another
OS I have found great utility in mutt's relatively new
smtp facility. The pertin
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2019 02:08:44 -0500
From: Bob Bernstein
Subject: Re: mutt wants sasl
User-Agent: Mutt/1.11.1 (2018-12-01)
On Mon, Mar 04, 2019 at 03:33:51PM -0700, Jeff_W wrote:
> https://sdf.org/?tutorials/smtpauth#postfix-netbsd6
Early this morning I had a feeling I would sooner or la
On Wed, 6 Mar 2019, Rhialto wrote:
On Tue 05 Mar 2019 at 10:18:57 +0100, ignat...@cs.uni-bonn.de wrote:
Of course, your mutt package needs to be built with
cyrus-sasl support. What does pkg_info mutt say?
It is not a default option, so I expect it isn't present in
the version from the bina
qqOn Wed, Mar 06, 2019 at 01:17:06PM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
> You may want to look at the binary package repos to see what's there.
If I do 'pkgin search nouveau' with these repositories I come up
with zilch:
http://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/amd64/7.1.2/All
http://nycdn.NetBS
On Wed, Mar 06, 2019 at 05:47:20PM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
> > I already have quite a few X packages built and installed. Won't
> > I be changing horses mid-stream, so to speak, by adding that
> > X11_TYPE statement now?
> Yes. If you move to modular, you should rebuild any package that
>
erconf mode, it will then
> fall back to use the plain VGA driver.
How can I identify the specific driver in question? Perhaps userconf
itself has a way of doing this? Is there some hallmark token for
which I should search dmest?
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nd the entire group here on the list!
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s with the same error
message if I place
set pgp_use_gpg_agent = yes
in my .muttrc.
All best,
--
Bob Bernstein
On Sat, Mar 09, 2019 at 04:22:34PM -0600, Edgar Pettijohn wrote:
> I don't know but you could easily test your hypothesis with a
> symlink or putting /usr/pkg in your $PATH if it isn't already.
Good idea (tried it) but poor test result. Here's what worked for
me, here, today; I cannot vouch if
This command:
# lintpkgsrc -help
...yields in its output these two lines:
-E file : Export the internal pkgsrc database to file
-I file : Import the internal pkgsrc database to file (for use with -i)
But I hesitate. Surely it is not totally up to me where to put this
important file, or what to
I cd'd into the subdir noted above and entered "bmake." Here is the
bad news from pkgsrc:
--snip---
Package dependency requirement 'randrproto >= 1.6.0' could not be
satisfied.
Package 'randrproto' has version '1.5.0', required version is '>=
1.6.0'
Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH envi
I am aiming at a successful pkgsrc build of modular-xorg. I posted
an error log yesterday to tech-x11. Overall, I'm trying to get
nouveau and X to function on this machine. (-current boots via
userconf disabling nouveau.)
As a rule I eschew cross-posting, but the traffic volume is low, and
th
On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 08:51:44PM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> In this case, you have a corrupt database. I have some notes
> about this to dig through about why this happens.
Now, running make in /usr/pkgsrc/meta-pkgs/modular-xorg hangs
up on a non-existent pkg "pixman-1". Just on general pri
On Thu, 14 Mar 2019, Chavdar Ivanov wrote:
When I do rolling replace I usually manually install osabi and
dependents in advance.
Any thoughts on this odd "pixman-1" pkg which showed up in a
subsequent make attempt in /modular-xorg?
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On Fri, 15 Mar 2019, Chavdar Ivanov wrote:
BTW what is the NVidia hardware on this machine?
From Windows while it was still running on the box:
nVidia:
GeForce 6150SE nForce 430
Thanks for giving modular-xorg a build try. I look forward to
your results.
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n page for more details.
*** Error code 1
Stop.
bmake[2]: stopped in /usr/pkgsrc/x11/modular-xorg-server
*** Error code 1
Stop.
bmake[1]: stopped in /usr/pkgsrc/x11/modular-xorg-server
*** Error code 1
Stop.
bmake: stopped in /usr/pkgsrc/meta-pkgs/modular-xorg
Script done on Sat Mar 16 15:17:11 2019
--snip--
Thanks all as per usual.
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I took to heart the advice to look at the suggested page in the
wiki, https://wiki.netbsd.org/pkagsrc/x11. Running 'pkg_delete -r
x11-links' returned no pkgs found (as best as memory can give me)
and in the process of nosing around it seemed I had no x11-links
installed.
Full Big-Dummy Disclo
On Sun, Mar 17, 2019 at 06:39:11PM +, Chavdar Ivanov wrote:
> BTW I finally finished a full modular-xorg build. Starting some
> tests now.
Perhaps I can follow in your footsteps.
I started all over again Sunday morning: new install of -current,
new cvs of pkgsrc, etc. I did quite well:
$
Mar 15 22:09:21 UTC 2019
mkre...@mkrepro.netbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC amd64
I will take the liberty again to attach the make output.
Thank you!
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Script started on Mon Mar 18 14:05:05 2019
=> Bootstrap dependency digest>=20010302: found digest-201901
On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 02:39:20PM +0100, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> I've removed lbxproxy and proxymngr from pkgsrc.
Modular-xorg built completely without a hiccup for me.
Thank you!
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These are not the droids you are looking for.
pci::00:0d.0: -19
[167599.299] (EE) [drm] Failed to open DRM device for pci::00:0d.0: -19
[167599.299] (EE) No devices detected.
[167599.299] (EE)
Fatal server error:
[167599.299] (EE) no screens found(EE)
[167599.299] (EE)
Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support
at http://wiki.x.org
for help.
[167599.299] (EE) Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for
additional information.
[167599.299] (EE)
[167599.300] (EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.
--end snip--
Any and all feedback will be most appreciated!
Thank you,
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Amazingly, I typed '/usr/pkg/bin/startx' and lo and behold had in
front of me the age-old X default of twm with the little clock and
three impossibly small xterms!
And sure enough, I could tweak /usr/pkg/etc/X11/xinit/xnitrc. A few
minutes later I was looking at my favorite wm, icewm, launched
On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 06:24:55PM +1100, matthew green wrote:
> glad you got it working.
Thank you sir!
> FWIW, in general, modern Xorg server runs with no xorg.conf fine
> in almost all cases.
Looking at the Xorg log, I see the word "default" several times.
Apparently this "default" fellow
I have learned that enigmail requires a "graphical" pinentry program,
but I found pinentry linked to pinentry-curses. My efforts directed to
repairing this fault resulted in deleting pinentry-gtk-2, which was of
course the version of pinentry I wanted to use.
Attempts now to install pinentry-gt
;pkg_delete".
Bingo. That did it. Or, at least some combination of
those three commands did it. I'm afraid I was not
terribly um systematic here tonight.
Thank you sir!
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My Epson scanner has quite a few years on it but it never so much
as hiccuped throughout those years while connected to Windows. The
Windows is now gone. I am running:
% uname -a
NetBSD nebby.localdomain 8.99.35 NetBSD 8.99.35 (GENERIC) #0: Fri Mar
15 22:09:21 UTC 2019
mkre...@mkrepro.netbsd.org:/
My Epson scanner has quite a few years on it but it never so much
as hiccuped throughout those years while connected to Windows. The
Windows is now gone. I am running:
% uname -a
NetBSD nebby.localdomain 8.99.35 NetBSD 8.99.35 (GENERIC) #0: Fri Mar
15 22:09:21 UTC 2019
mkre...@mkrepro.netbsd.org:/
On 2019-04-23 04:17, Chavdar Ivanov wrote:
> For what is worth, I just built the same version on -current amd64,
> -current pkgsrc. It works fine for me.
So that I might gain some understanding of how the environment in which
I am attempting to launch calibre may differ from yours, would you b
Thank you for your prompt reply Chavdar.
On 2019-04-24 17:03, Chavdar Ivanov wrote:
> I have usually PYTHON_VERSION_DEFAULT set to 37, but for tje time of the
> build I commented it out, python versions can cause problems with some
> builds.
I ran 'make reinstall' for calibre after setting that
Not too long ago a resident of this venue shared a
wonderful document describing how to set up sasl for
postfix. For today's purpose, here is the pertinent
snippet:
--chomp--
/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd (for security set ownership to
root:wheel, permissions to 600) [mx.sdf.org]:submission
Some hours ago, trying to complete a new install of
NetBSD, I cvs checked-out pkgsrc from the mirror in
Plano,TX:
anoncvs3.us.NetBSD.org
I want to do further updates from:
anoncvs.NetBSD.org
How much trouble am I in, and what is required to pull
this off?
Thank you again!
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What can be
On Mon, May 06, 2019 at 12:00:33AM +0200, Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri wrote:
> This is shown on the lines following that text:
>
> % cd /etc/postfix/
> % sudo postmap generic sasl_passwd # creates generic.db & sasl_passwd.db
Thank you (and Herbert too). Very much.
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On Mon, May 06, 2019 at 07:48:21AM +0700, Robert Elz wrote:
> You could also just use cp instead of ln, and forget
> about having links, and use the same method if you ever > want to update
> again later (less likely to go wrong
> that> way.)
Somehow I like the cp idea. If I understand, any ne
CVS/Root)"
> read ans || exit 1
> case "$ans" in
> [yY]*) ;;
> *) exit 1;
> esac
>
> find . \( -path ./CVS -prune \) -o \
> \( -path '*/CVS/Root' $v -exec cp CVS/Root {} \; \)
Very best regards,
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If built from pkgsrc mutt requires gnupg2. The supplied
executable then is 'gpg2'.
On the other hand, among the documents that ship with
this mutt is the highly useful 'gpg.rc', which is
easily included into one's .muttrc.
Problem: The latter is writeen in terms of 'gpg', not
'gpg2'.
Is ther
? Ssl 0:01.80 gpg-agent --homedir /home/bob/.gnupg --use-standard-socket
--daemon
Please forgive that I have muddled two different email
addresses (bob & poobah) in this thread.
Thank you.
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On Tue, 7 May 2019, Greg Troxel wrote:
I suspect this is a disagreement about whether GnuPG 2 should
be installed as gpg2, or be just gpg. pkgsrc still has 2 as
gpg2.
I would think the ink is by now very, very dry on the decision
to go with gpg and gpg2, as in pkgsrc.
The package could t
On Wed, May 08, 2019 at 05:48:10PM +0100, Andrew Luke Nesbit wrote:
> I don't like systemd but I accept it and I embrace
> it. And I think it will get better. I am trying to
> learn how to operate it.
Bingo. I agree completely with everything you say about
Debian, the systemd wars (which are
Epiphany built very nicely from pkgsrc, and in the process built
qt5-qtmultimedia, and pulseaudio. However epiphany doesn't seem able
to play any audio. I can play wav files just tine from the command
prompt using audioplay.
Clearly I am a few pepperoni short of a pizza. How do I implemnet
pul
How embarrassing is that? Please allow me a do-over:
Epiphany built very nicely from pkgsrc, and in the process built
qt5-qtmultimedia, and pulseaudio. However, epiphany doesn't seem
able to play any audio. I can play wav files just tine from the
command prompt using audioplay.
Clearly I am a
On Sun, May 12, 2019 at 06:36:26PM +, m...@netbsd.org wrote:
> I think you need dbus running.
> /usr/pkg/share/examples/rc.d/dbus onestart
Yes. Pulseaudio complained about its absence, and I have it running
now, but to no avail re epiphany producing audio.
$ ps ax |grep dbus
376 ? I
On Sun, May 12, 2019 at 04:12:43PM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote:
> I am currently in the middle of a pkgsrc build of firefox60, and
> when that completes I will have another browser to test
> audio.
To followup in re the "test" noted above: www/firefox60 built
smoothly (
On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 08:27:59PM +, n...@n0.is wrote:
> This is in the 2.x series of epiphany [...]
Yes. It is www/epiphany, and meta-pkgs/gnome builds it.
Seems to me there was another version in wip, n'est-ce pas? Sorry, I
don't have wip in front of me.
Thank you.
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What can be asse
I want to use a flash drive instead of a CD to upgrade from an
old 'current' to our latest. This is being done on an ancient
emachine amd64:
NetBSD nebby 8.99.35 NetBSD 8.99.35 (GENERIC) #0: Wed Mar 13 06:27:34 UTC 2019
mkre...@mkrepro.netbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC amd64
On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 08:18:59PM -0400, Ron Georgia wrote:
> ...you find a section labeled "Booting the install system from
> USB." Section 2.2.6.1 to be exact. Once the image is
> downloaded, from the command line prompt:
Ach! Dawn breaks over Narrangansett Bay!
> What platform are you usin
On Tue, 20 Aug 2019, Bob Bernstein wrote:
I am doing all this on the netbsd system I want to upgrade.
Okay, I am able to boot the netbsd on the flash drive and begin
the upgrade, but I have hit a snag when it comes time for that
flash drive to be mounted: "incorrect super block.&q
On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 09:31:00PM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote:
> I'm wondering: was there any preparation of the flash drive
> that should have been done before dd'ing the install-image.img
> onto it? Formatting? Filesystem? MBR?
The above bit of speculation was inspired b
YO YO YO Jeremy! (aka The Hardest-Working Man in NetBSD-land!
) Long time, long time...
My upgrade is successful:
NetBSD nebby 9.0_BETA NetBSD 9.0_BETA (GENERIC) #0: Sun Aug 18
14:36:49 UTC 2019
mkre...@mkrepro.netbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC
amd64
On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at
On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 06:09:28PM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote:
> Indeed, that image runs with the root file system on the USB device.
To my delight I learned that I can edit the image "in place," as
it were, on the flash drive. Thus I put my boot.cfg on it, which
nicely ushers me past the odi
Thanks for your reflections on USB sticks and booting therefrom!
I know I am going to do more experiments with them. I bought two
64 gig sticks, one of which I used to upgrade my 'current'
NetBSD machine, but the other is still in its package. Not sure
what I will do with it.
I would like to
On Sun, 25 Aug 2019, Edgar Pettijohn wrote:
Just install the system to the flash drive instead of the hard
drive.
Believe it or not, that possibility passed through my addled
pate more than once, and left me wondering: "H?"
Thank you
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Poobah
A series of misadventures that began nicely enough with a
successful cvs up of my pkgsrc tree, followed by an uneventful
run of pkg_rolling-update has however left me with a new perl5, as
noted ver. 5.30.0, that appears not to have finished its build.
My attention was aroused when I tried what
A series of misadventures that began nicely enough with a
successful cvs up of my pkgsrc tree, followed by an uneventful
run of pkg_rolling-update has however left me with a new perl5, as
noted ver. 5.30.0, that appears not to have finished its build.
My attention was aroused when I tried what
On Fri, Oct 04, 2019 at 12:42:44PM +0200, Rhialto wrote:
> So something weird may be going on.
I would give assent to that speculation.
> The package that adds
> /usr/pkg/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.28.0/LWP.pm is
> p5-libwww-6.39.
I used this hint to solve (apparently) the problem of the
missi
Request for Suggestions:
I am gathering what will ultimately be about 100G of files on my
amd64 Netbsd (an old eMachine windows box itself) system's
original HD.
That system as well as my Windows 10 (running off a NUC) are
cat-5 wired into the LAN upstairs here in the house.
The NUC now ha
On Mon, 14 Oct 2019, David Brownlee wrote:
I've had good experiences running syncthing to sync data
between a set of NetBSD boxes (some directories being master
on one machine only and pushing out, others allowing changes
from multiple ends). Its cross platform. It might be overkill
for just
My NetBSD install is rebooting itself on odd occasions.
This is $ uname -a
NetBSD nebby.localdomain 9.0_BETA NetBSD 9.0_BETA (GENERIC) #0: Sun Aug 18
14:36:49 UTC 2019
mkre...@mkrepro.netbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC amd64
I have not done any tinkering with this install beyon
Again I apologize for including a long log file from the ailing
rxvt-unicode on my 'NetBSD nebby.localdomain 9.0_BETA NetBSD
9.0_BETA (GENERIC) #0: Sun Aug 18 14:36:49 UTC 2019
mkre...@mkrepro.netbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC
amd64' install:
Script started on Thu Nov 21 23:41
On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 03:12:24PM +0100, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
> Also looking at the error message, please upgrade your
> current snapshot to a newer version.
That did the trick: "NetBSD nebby.localdomain 9.0_BETA
NetBSD 9.0_BETA (GENERIC) #0: Wed Nov 20 16:50:50 UTC 2019
mkre...@mkrepro.ne
NB. Since I don't think I should begin a thread to the Security
Officer, I am sending this to netbsd-users.
The security advisory today -- re filemon -- contains this line
under the "Affected" heading:
> Version:NetBSD-current: affected up to 9.99.17
As usual I am tardy keeping
On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 07:46:31PM +0100, Martin Husemann wrote:
> > '9.0_BETA NetBSD 9.0_BETA (GENERIC) #0: Wed Nov 20 16:50:50 UTC 2019'
>
> Since you are using 9.0_BETA the "NetBSD-current" line is not for you.
> Instead there is:
>
> Fixed:NetBSD-9 branch:October 28, 2019
>
up on my NetBSD system!
The source tarball is here:
http://alpine.x10host.com/alpine/release/
Woo-hoo!
--
Bob Bernstein
A test of right and wrong must be the means, one would
think, of ascertaining what is right or wrong, and not a
consequence of having already
I want to run RR on my system but prevent it from rebuilding;
1. www/ikiwiki
and
2. Any perl package on which it depends. (There are many.)
I know '-X ikiwiki' will see to #1 above, but I am at sea as to
how to enforce #2. If need be I could settle for a broader #2,
that is "Any package on w
are any args I can enter at the
boot prompt to help this along?
Thx!
--
Bob Bernstein
After a long delay I have finally upgraded my netbsd machine
to 6.1.3, and refreshed the /usr/pkgsrc tree to
pkgsrc-2013Q4. I then charged off to build claws-mail and
ran into a bit of pesky business that has always baffled me.
At every turn, as claws-mail ground through its build, I was
conf
On Mon, 10 Mar 2014, Greg Troxel wrote:
Three approaches:
Thanks everyone who has responded.
Well it might be asked why I insist on building everything
from /usr/pkgsrc, and not use the "pre-built" packages. I
have in the past set myself the discipline of, in a new
install of NetBSD, "liv
On Mon, 10 Mar 2014, Greg Troxel wrote:
Three approaches:
Thanks everyone who has responded.
Well it might be asked why I insist on building everything
from /usr/pkgsrc, and not use the "pre-built" packages. I
have in the past set myself the discipline of, in a new
install of NetBSD, "livi
in
draw.c:112:18: error: expected ';' before 'base'
draw.c:156:35: error: 'base' undeclared (first use in this function)
*** Error code 1
Stop.
make: stopped in /usr/pkgsrc/devel/m17n-lib/work/m17n-lib-1.6.4/src
*** Error code 1
--snip--
All reactions, suggesti
rsion mismatch: 'fribidi' 0.10.9 vs 0.19.6"
After bringing fribidi up to speed, m17n-lib built ok. Not
to strike a negative note, but is not that the sort of
thing that a pkgsrc build ought to detect and remedy?
Best regards,
--
Bob Bernstein
On Sun, 16 Mar 2014, Greg Troxel wrote:
It builds for me under NetBSD 6 with X11_TYPE=modular.
I have 6.1.3 here with stock off-the-shelf X.
Have you verified that all your packages are up to date vs
the pkgsrc tree?
The output of lintpkgsrc showed my fribidi was way behind:
"Version mism
On Mon, 17 Mar 2014, Greg Troxel wrote:
Basically "make package-install" in one package does not imply
"run over the entire pkgsrc tree and make everything else right.
Oh, completely understood. I hope I didn't give the impression
that I had expectations of that kind!
When you had this prob
On Mon, 17 Mar 2014, Greg Troxel wrote:
Basically "make package-install" in one package does not
imply "run over the entire pkgsrc tree and make everything
else right.
Oh, completely understood. I hope I didn't give the
impression that I had expectations of that kind!
When you had this pro
machine, which I hasten to add is a Micron full tower dual
PPro-180mhz 256Mbyte ram sporting twin 9 gig SCSI hard drives.
How long to update those 120 packages? I'd rather not think
about it! But somehow I think the funders of pkgsrc wanted to
take that burden from my shoulders. Perhaps, Dr.
Typo! Bah!
But somehow I think the funders of pkgsrc...
Make that "founders." Bah.
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Bob Bernstein
m too new to be a founder :-)
Oops.
I don't really see any options other than patience or expending
CPU time.
Sage words indeed!
Thanks,
--
Bob Bernstein
During an effort to build epiphany in pkgsrc (i386,
off-the-shelf netbsd 6.1.3) I ran out
of disk-space; pkgsrc partition was *much* too small.
So I switched the partitions holding /usr/pkgsrc and
/usr/local. The latter had plenty of room. I did a
fresh cvs of pkgsrc on the just-renamed (and
During an effort to build epiphany in pkgsrc (i386,
off-the-shelf netbsd 6.1.3) I ran out
of disk-space; pkgsrc partition was *much* too small.
So I switched the partitions holding /usr/pkgsrc and
/usr/local. The latter had plenty of room. I did a
fresh cvs of pkgsrc on the just-renamed (and
On Sat, Mar 07, 2015 at 06:32:50PM -0800, j...@sdf.org wrote:
> This email has a PGP signature attached; verify
> using PGP public key at http://jgw.sdf.org/pgp/
Why do you not use a public key-server?
--
Bob Bernstein
On Sat, 11 Apr 2015, Benny Siegert wrote:
I don't think NetBSD provides vmware images,
Neither did I.
...though there are official AMIs for Amazon EC2.
Interesting, if one wanted to go in that direction.
Thanks,
--
These are not the droids you are looking for.
add a user but also if I
wanted that user to be put into the wheel group.
So I am surprised to see that when, as that user, I type
'su', I am propelled into root user status without needing
to enter a password.
Thoughts, anyone?
Signed,
Surprised (and Confused) in Rhode Island
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Bob Bernstein
On Sat, 22 Aug 2015, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
Please check whether your root password is empty.
It sure was empty. Sorry everyone!
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Bob Bernstein
On Fri, 21 Aug 2015, Ottavio Caruso wrote:
Maybe you forgot to set up a root password?
Exactly right.
But even in that case, you shouldn't be able to log in.
I would tend to agree with you, but then I am a quite an
amateur around here!
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Bob Bernstein
Mucho thanks,
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Bob Bernstein
On Sat, 22 Aug 2015, Bob Bernstein wrote:
The supported guests page mentions Free- and Open- BSD as
supported, but I don't see NetBSD.
I should not have been such a chicken. The GUI installer
that virtualbox pops up lists "NetBSD (32-bit)" on its
dropdown list.
I'll
agement will be deeply
appreciated!
Thanks,
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Bob Bernstein
hat
monstrosity.)
Thank you again for your patience!
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Bob Bernstein
WNED on me to try connecting by means other than
ping! Don't even try to understand what a moron I feel like,
but I am so happy I can now run NetBSD on this stupid $99
Staples refurb!!!
THANK YOU.
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Bob Bernstein
.
Thanks,
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Bob Bernstein was born in 1944.
On Sun, 1 Nov 2015, Ottavio Caruso wrote:
You can change that editing /boot.cfg.
man 5 boot.cfg, go to the "menu" section.
Sounds like an excellent tip, and a lot easier than building a
new kernel!
Thanks,
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Bob Bernstein
am doing -- always a stretch!
All best,
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Bob Bernstein
Can you take advantage of mc's "Learn keys" under its "Options"
menu?
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