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I ran into this error message as well with MySQL 5.7, and I thought I'd share my solution. We've been running MySQL 5.7 for a few months, but after a `pkg update`, MySQL failed to start on one of my servers. In our case, it seems that mysql-server was ignoring the value of `mysql_optfile`...

It looks like the FreeBSD handbook has been updated, and now has official instructions on how to do this using pkg-static upgrade -f: From https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/updating-upgrading-freebsdupdate.html#freebsdupdate-portsrebuild A forced upgrade of all installed packages will...

Re: After freebsd-update, use pkg upgrade instead of portmas *deleted*

Re: After freebsd-update, use pkg upgrade instead of portmas Thanks for the confirmation. pkg upgrade --dry-run --force looks like a good thing to try.

I'm performing a major version upgrade of FreeBSD using freebsd-update. The FreeBSD Handbook, in section 24.2.3.3. Rebuilding Ports After a Major Version Upgrade suggests I run freebsd-update -r X.Y-RELEASE upgrade and then update all ports using portmaster -af. But, updating using ports takes...

Since pkg upgrade seems to work fine for a single package, does that mean that FreeBSD bug #334: pkg upgrade cannot upgrade a single package is no longer accurate?

Are you sure? The man page says it can be used to update 'specific' packages? At least that's how I read their meaning of 'pkg-name' and 'specific packages'. In addition, `pkg upgrade bash` seems to work just fine, and `pkg upgrade someotherpackage` installed that package, and a dependencies...

Arguably, the third option is that the authoritative documentation, like the FreeBSD Handbook, should set proper expectations for the business customers. Be clear about the once-per-week schedule, be clear that this same schedule applies to critical vulnerabilities and that customers should be...

Is the Bash binary package tested before it is deposited to the Package servers, or are customers expected to do their own testing before rolling it out to all of our servers? I see the post Ports Tree Now Fully Staged which talks a bit about a testing framework, but I can't find more...

Thanks for that. Is there a way to validate that I actually am running OpenSSL 0.9.8za or newer? We manage FreeBSD using freebsd-update for binary updates, and I don't have the source code on the system.

I just updated an old FreeBSD 8 system to FreeBSD 8.4-RELEASE-p14 using freebsd-update. We are surprised to note that this version of FreeBSD ships with an old version of OpenSSL: root@freebsd:~ # uname -v FreeBSD 8.4-RELEASE-p14 #0: Tue Jul 8 12:41:46 UTC 2014...

Does FreeBSD 9.2 support the new ZFS pool version 5000? It's hard to imagine that it wouldn't, but the release announcement at http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.2R/announce.html and http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.2R/relnotes.html do not mention this. However, FreeBSD 8.4 makes a specific...

I have a FreeBSD 8.2 system running ZFS and a MySQL 5.5 database. I installed lsof from ports. When I run lsof, it says No physical znode address Can someone explain what this message means? mysqld 1234 mysql *273u No physical znode address: 0xffffff01fe261000 mysqld...

I updated an older machine to FreeBSD 7.4 a few days ago and then updated the ports, including Perl. I am running a script which requires the Perl module "Net::LDAP". net/p5-perl-ldap looks like the right choice, but it will not install on my system because the dependency...

My system is running bsnmpd along with net-mgmt/bsnmp-ucd, and uses ZFS. When I restart bsnmpd, the following messages are printed to /var/log/messages: Aug 27 11:19:45 host4 snmpd[2537]: disk_OS_get_disks: device 'cd0' not in device list Aug 27 11:19:45 host4 snmpd[2537]: disk_OS_get_disks...

Thank you. Your suggestions worked. The following modification fixes my immediate issues. [root@host /usr/ports/mail/mailman]# diff Makefile Makefile.orig 42c42 < MM_USERID?= ${MM_USERID} --- > MM_USERID?= 91 139c139 < @${ECHO} "MM_USERID=${MM_USERID} The user ID of...

How can I tell if a FreeBSD port is unmaintained? The port in question is mail/mailman. According to the post http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2011-July/068861.html from Chris Rees (Maintainer of mail/sympa), "Mailman is unmaintained". I see the following tools, but I am...

I am building mail/mailman from ports. I need to override the default User ID and Group ID for the Mailman user. mail/mailman automatically assigns USERID=91 to the mailman user, and then sets the GROUPID to the value of the USERID. This conflicts with my environment (another user has already...

Are you talking about http://wiki.freebsd.org/pkgng ? That page doesn't appear to have any instructions on using portmaster, portupgrade or portmaster with pkgng. -= Stefan

It's true, I've run into multiple problems with ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-9-stable in the last day or two. I'm using other mirrors. ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-9-stable/Latest/math/ isn't a valid path, correct? Don't you want `pkg_add -r...