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  1. foo_daemon

    FreeBSD fault tolerance

    I had a fair amount of FreeBSD crashes when I was running 9-CURRENT on my laptop years ago... it was not entirely STABLE (get it?), and additionally my hard drive slice was not big enough, so I had to put /usr/ports on an NFS mount which would crash often when trying to build a large port (/me...
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    freebsd-update asks me to merge/diff 100+ files

    Unfortunately I can't give much useful advice as I haven't used freebsd-update for several years (since I started doing customization on kernels), but within mergemaster are these command options: -i Automatically install any files that do not exist in the des-...
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    Which package/port provides file xy

    Here's a one liner that may help you: If you are looking for what provides a file, for example /usr/local/bin/STUFF , then you can try: $ find /usr/ports -iname "pkg-plist*" -maxdepth 3 -exec grep -iH "bin/STUFF" {} \; (make sure you do not include /usr/local path in the grep string as this...
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    Consequences of using portupgrade -a on a running system

    Great tips; thanks! I actually already have ports-mgmt/poudriere installed, and I'd been meaning to RTFM and start using it but hadn't gotten around to it yet.. now I have a very good reason to :) Yes, I forgot to mention that I had already looked through and performed the steps in...
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    Consequences of using portupgrade -a on a running system

    Just thought I would share something that happened to me today which I found pretty hilarious. I use the Chromium browser on FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE; I noticed that there were lots of available upgrades on my existing packages, so I did a portupgrade -ack on my live system to upgrade all installed...
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    Solved New port for Plex Home Theater?

    Congratulations and good work.. I'm going to test it this weekend :beergrin
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    Problems building ffmpeg on 9.0 amd64 (probably i386 too)

    Update: Hmm, looking at freshports, it seems like x264 is supposed to be at version 119. Looking at mine, though, the Makefile hasn't been updated since October: ls -tla /usr/ports/multimedia/x264 total 26 drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 512 Feb 10 08:19 . drwxr-xr-x 391 root wheel 8704 Feb...
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    Problems building ffmpeg on 9.0 amd64 (probably i386 too)

    Greetings, I did a portsnap fetch update last night and was building x11/kde4 etc from scratch, but noticed it had a build failure on multimedia/ffmpeg this morning. I re-updated ports again at 14:59 UTC today, but still the failure occurred. ffmpeg was seeing that the depended version of...
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    Requesting porting TrueCrypt to FreeBSD

    Someone has (at long last?) complied with this request! security/truecrypt. Apparently the latest version (7.1) supports the GUI, but hell, I would be fine with just a working command line version. I'm updating my ports and installing it now..
  10. foo_daemon

    rum wireless driver in RELENG_8_1 ?

    Ah, next time I'll RTFM.
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    rum wireless driver in RELENG_8_1 ?

    I 'upgraded' (read: fresh install) generic 8_1 onto a 7 machine, but can't get the wireless adapter to work. It's auto recognized and loads the usb Ralink wireless adapter as rum0, just like it was in 7, but whenever I try to ifconfig rum0 ssid myhomenetwork, I get ifconfig: SIOCS80211: invalid...
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    Unable to do a cold shutdown (have to press powerbutton)

    Well, that confirms that you do have acpi compiled into the kernel (as it is supposed to be in GENERIC) and that your sources are synced properly. I'm pretty much out of ideas..
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    Unable to do a cold shutdown (have to press powerbutton)

    Do a dmesg before and after you try the kldload: are there new lines with more information? Also, What is the output of grep __FreeBSD_version /usr/src/sys/sys/param.h versus sysctl kern.osreldate ?
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    Unable to do a cold shutdown (have to press powerbutton)

    I'm not exactly sure if this is going to solve the problem, but if your /usr/src is populated, the command cd /usr/src/sys/modules/acpi/acpi && make && make install should get acpi.ko into /boot/modules , and then kldload acpi should work.
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    HOW TO: Flash10 plugin, Firefox3 and FreeBSD 7.2 or higher

    The best way that I know of is the flashblock add-on.
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    Broadcom WiFi

    Using 9-current: the bwi0 driver loaded properly for my BCM4311 (dell 1390 wlan card), but was frequently causing kernel panics in the 'taskq' function when I did an AP scan or tried to join a specific ssid. NDIS-derived driver is stable and works: how long has AP scanning been working on NDIS...
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    HOW TO: Flash10 plugin, Firefox3 and FreeBSD 7.2 or higher

    Yeah, the original post doesn't really say if it needs to be enabled on a permanent basis, but given that I want flash to work each time in firefox without additional effort from me, I just added those to my rc.conf . My root directory didn't have enough space for fitting the linux_base-f10 into...
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    FreeBSD on Virtual box ... can i test apache!?

    Agreed. Use the "Bridged Adapter" and then just select the correct (connected) adapter. Should be fine, provided you don't have a fascist for a DHCP admin.
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    Custom made router speed.

    I did not have a good experience with my DI-624. Worked great for the first year, but then I read from others who said many of these units had faulty power adapters, and then of course mine started acting up. Unit started to reboot itself under high network load (e.g., when I used bitorrent)...
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    MATLAB print eps

    Just some wild guesses here: Do you have the port x11/libXdamage installed? Have you tried rebuilding it along with graphics/libGLU ?
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