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Is the user in the operator group?

Did you setup a chroot for 32-bit binaries? http://wiki.freebsd.org/Wine#Wine_on_FreeBSD.2BAC8-amd64 If you did, chroot back into the 32-bit system as in the instructions on that page, then instead of cd /usr/ports/emulators/wine && make install clean You would use this to install the...

Hello. I have been trying to hook up an external drive that has an xfs file-system under FreeBSD 8.1. I read there is "working" read-only support for xfs and thought i mount copy over my music, so far i have had no luck mounting the drive. After some reading i realized i might need...

Ok seems like its been a while, but i finally got round to doing this, formatted my drive to FAT32. I have a problem with read/write though. Just to clarify in case "large" is part of the problem: $ sudo mount -t msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt/fat32/ mount_msdosfs: /dev/da0s1: Disk too big, try '-o...

Here is my desktop (running XFCE) Gnome-colors Human Icons Crash Gtk Theme My bash PS1: PS1='\[\e[0;31m\][\[\e[0;37m\]\u\[\e[0;31m\]@\[\e[0;37m\]\h \W\[\e[0;31m\]]\$\[\e[0m\] ' Not much config to talk about :e

Hi, have tried searching google/forum posts for a command to "auto remove" any un-needed ports that i have installed. In a similar fashion to `apt-get autoremove` on debian systems (remove installed packages/libs left behind, after something has been removed). Either i'm looking at the wrong...

Did you add yourself to the wheel, and operator groups when you created your user account?. I think that may be the issue. groups If you don't see them listed with the above command; run this one to add an account to those groups: pw usermod username -G wheel,operator

Are you starting the x server from a tty console after booting? if you add: gdm_enable="YES" to your: /etc/rc.conf The gdm will autorun after booting, and once logging in you should see the shutdown option under "System" menu. (please correct me if i'm wrong)

Hi, i have a 500GB LaCiE external hard-drive, i bought it for the purpose of storing my music, photos, movies etc. I tend to distro hop/re-install fairly often. Its connected by usb and is detected etc. My drive is currently formatted as ext4, and refuses to mount under FreeBSD, which isn't a...

Disabled socks5 support, all is working good now. Thanks for reply's everyone, problem solved.

@fronclynne thanks for reply, must be the problem, i did choose socks5 support on the config when it prompted me. i'm booted in arch linux at the moment, but ill try your suggestion tomorrow morning. cheers :D

i just tried re-extracting ports portsnap fetch portsnap extract ... <snip> ... /usr/ports/x11/yalias/ /usr/ports/x11/yeahconsole/ /usr/ports/x11/yelp/ /usr/ports/x11/zenity/ Building new INDEX files... done. [demo@beasty:/home/demo]% sudo portsnap update Ports tree is already up to...

Well this appears to be working fine for the moment, is there any advantage to running the 2.8.8 version? i,e security patches etc. beasty# pkg_add -r xchat Fetching ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-8.1-release/Latest/xchat.tbz... Done. pkg_add: warning: package...

@DutchDaemon yes it appears to be... [demo@beasty:/usr/ports/irc/xchat]% sudo portsnap fetch Password: Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 5 mirrors found. Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap6.FreeBSD.org... done. Latest snapshot on server matches what we already have. No updates needed...

@d_mon i took a few in virtualbox not long ago, you can find them at my blog here: http://xdemo.net/x/2010/07/ghostbsd-1-5-beta-screenshots/ The default theme + wallpaper is real sweet.

hi, first off i'm new to freebsd, been running it 3days now with gnome up and running nicely. I had just upgraded ports packages (whopping 8 hours :o) but everything went smooth, except for "xchat 2.8.8". I had originally installed xchat, which was "2.8.6" i believe... i was given a build...