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I faced this issue recently, and this thread actually helped me find out what was causing the issue. I was not using a SSD but was facing a system freeze while doing intensive I/O operations. Root cause seems to be the swapfile used since I dont have a dedicated swap partition available for that...

:) Even before reading this, I had checked my FreeBSD system, and found dumpe2fs and got very excited, but on checking found that it is an EXT2 counterpart to dumpfs. I'm still playing around with duplicity -- but it is never going to be possible to take a clean consistent backup and I now...

Thanks for the reply. Of course I tried it ;). But it didn't work. # /sbin/dump -C32 -b64 -0anL -h0 -f /tmp/usr.dump /usr DUMP: WARNING: Cannot use -L on an unmounted filesystem. dump: /usr: unknown file system From all the alternatives I could find, I am now looking at...

I was forced to move my /usr to EXT2 since I needed to dual boot the system on FreeBSD and Linux for different applications and needed read/write to the home directory. What I did not realize is that my backup solution would stop working :( I have been using dump/restore as a backup solution...

I now did a make rmconfig to reset the port configuration to the default and then rebuilt Firefox. ===> The following configuration options are available for firefox-esr-24.1.0_1,1: DBUS=on: D-Bus IPC system support DEBUG=off: Install debug symbols GCONF=off: GConf configuration...

Hi, I am running 9-stable (rev 257886) on amd64. www/firefox-esr builds OK, but doesn't install anymore. Previously I had the 17.x version and that was OK. My configuration: ===> The following configuration options are available for firefox-esr-24.1.0_1,1: DBUS=on: D-Bus IPC system...

Have you installed a bootstrap on the FreeBSD slice? bsdlabel can help with that. Check the man page http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?bsdlabel

As a followup, I checked booting with verbose mode. I then saw the following log: Apr 10 16:43:22 mellon kernel: ACPI Error: [ECPU] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20110527/psargs-392) Apr 10 16:43:22 mellon kernel: ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_TZ_.TZ00._TMP] (Node...

Hi, I am running 9-STABLE-amd64 -r233515 on my Fujitsu LH531 laptop. So far things are going quite well (wireless OK, basic-X OK till now) There is an irritating problem that I wanted some help on. I am continuously getting the following errors from ACPI. These repeat every 10 seconds...

Hi, I am trying to use the Belkin Surf & Share Wireless USB Adapter to check if support for this exists on FreeBSD. I used ndisgen, but am not able to make it work. System: p4-HT processor FreebSD-8.2-Stable (csup around 12.Sep.2011) GENERIC I got the latest stable Ndisulator source from...