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What do you think the biggest major FreeBSD version release was, in terms of the amount of users its changes would impact (not counting dropped hardware), and the amount of changes it made? I am curious to see what people's experiences with prior updates were.

Hi folks, I'm running 14.3-RELEASE and recently ran freebsd-update fetch and seem to be getting a strange response from the update server: # freebsd-update -v debug fetch Password: Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found. Fetching metadata signature for 14.3-RELEASE from...

I am using FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE-p4 and would like to update PHP and MySQL to their latest versions through the repository. Can anyone advise me on how to apply the necessary patches?

Hello FreeBSD community, Since I updated my FreeBSD last week (and today), Telegram Desktop cannot be started anymore. Before it was simply possible by executing telegram-desktop through CLI or calling it through the shortcut, which of course also doesn't work anymore. The issues started with...

Hello, I'm struggling for almost 3 weeks now with a GitLab package update. The software only supports specific upgrade path that does not allow skipping major versions. However for a system that was not upgraded for more than one year now I have Gitlab 15 and current available package to...

Good day! After updating from 13.3-RELEASE-p8 to 13.4-RELEASE-p4 I have noticed that console font was changed. Questions how to change console font (I like new font, but just interested)? does such settings build in world or kernel?

Just a heads up Freebsd 14.2 p1 is out freebsd-version -kru 14.2-RELEASE-p1 14.2-RELEASE-p1 14.2-RELEASE-p1 uname -a FreeBSD pollux 14.2-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 14.2-RELEASE-p1 GENERIC amd64 there is an update for musicpd note if you have a custom musicpd rc.d script in...

Hi everyone! I know that this kind of problem was already asked in Internet and also here, but I don't understand all suggested solutions. Can someone explain me what should I do in the case of this error: root@mf:/usr/home/kazham # freebsd-update fetch src component not installed, skipped...

This is happening across all machines. After the usual freebsd-update fetch, freebsd-update install cycle, world/base looks like it updated correctly, but the kernel did not. freebsd-version shows: 14.1-RELEASE-p6 freebsd-version -k shows: 14.1-RELEASE-p5 I noticed this this morning when the...

I currently run a old school blog with PG <-> PHP <-> Apache nothing very fancy all without jails (which I think is what bytes me). I currently have : When I pkg update : I'll get complaints about I think one of the php packages is requiring that, but there is not update available for pg...

I am familiar with freebsd-update for patches, but for instance, I want to use the cmdline to see what releases exist. For instance, I want to see that I can upgrade from 14.0-RELEASE to 14.1-RELEASE. I can determine that from the browser, but what about the cmdline?

Hello forum. So, a few weeks ago I updated my Latitude5400 from 13.3 to 14.1. A couple of days later I discovered (by running # zpool status) that my zroot pool had a upgrade available. Like a ignorant f..ker I just ran # zpool upgrade zroot expecting that would be the only thing I needed to...

If you have a WD Blue SA510 SSD of any capacity you need to update its firmware and backup your data before it gets bricked . It happened to mine today . Since WD has not communicated about this in any meaningful way, send this to anyone who you may think could be affected ...

Hi, the output of the commands on my server gives me: # freebsd-version -kru 13.2-RELEASE-p11 13.2-RELEASE-p11 13.2-RELEASE-p11 # freebsd-update fetch src component not installed, skipped Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found. Fetching metadata signature for 13.2-RELEASE...

I have updated my system from 13.2-RELEASE -> 14.0-RELEASE, I use a custom kernel configuration in order to have network interface polling enabled, yet when I have tried to recompile my custom kernel with 14.0 version I noticed that releng/14.0 is not present in Git repository. Now I have my...

I have a machine behind a firewall. How do it update it, ie. to the execute these commands normally of there is an Internet connection: ?

Dear FreeBSD Community, I hope that this is the right forum to ask for. Since portsnap is not supported in FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE anymore I've decided it's time to switch to git for updating my port trees across the different servers. I did this a few weeks ago like described in the FreeBSD...

Hello all, After do an pkg update and pkg upgrade to version 1.20.8 my nginx-full got de-installed and not update. Then tried do pkg install nginx-full or pkg install www/nginx-full and seems this is not on the list. Error message: pkg install nginx-full Updating FreeBSD repository...

Hello, During the upgrade process to FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE the installer tells me: The following file could not be merged automatically: /etc/ssh/sshd_config Press Enter to edit this file in vi and resolve the conflicts manually... This is on a clean installation (i.e. zero changes). #...

I recently upgraded my server from FreeBSD 13.0 RELEASE to 13.1 RELEASE. I followed the instructions in the handbook, but I'm having issues, especially with iocage. When I attempt to run iocage, I get this error: # iocage ld-elf.so.1: /lib/libc.so.7: version FBSD_1.7 required by...