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As one Intel chip designer put it : "implement the old ISA bit for bit and bug for bug". They did a visit to MS to remind them not to depend upon undocumented side effects, only to witness a meeting between the future developments department and...

Here is a writeup that I made last year for another project. depends on installing sysutils/smartmontools ======================================================= The important quality data from a SATA HDD. root@FreeBSDnode:~...

I will run a smartmontools and post a log of it. The cables should be normal as I accidentally tried to swap them, and the faulted drive kept to be the same.

I recommend to ensure you have a backup of the data of this pool first. When the second disk also fails your data is toast.

The drive is failing and needs to be replaced. ZFS might online the disk after a restart and will attempt to fix data on the disk that isn't correct but it will likely keep happening. As the whole disk is encrypted with GELI, I don't see a...

My version of FreeBSD is 14.3-RELEASE.

I seond the recommendation for the T14 gen1 AMD. Note that there is a T14s, which is the shit version. Don't get that.

Yep. The 'S' is not silent like 'D' in 'Django' unfortunately ... the ThinkPad T420s and T430s are great laptops (and I personally used and still have T420s) but more modern ones like T480s/T490s/T14s are too much fucking loud (fan going crazy...

For anyone coming from Linux, UFS would be more familiar. UFS is akin to EXT4 -- EXT4 is extent based whereas UFS uses cylinder groups. Both have a similar feel. A Linux user will feel more at home with UFS. ZFS is kind of like XFS on steroids...

This is the default configuation for pkg. # # To disable a repository, instead of modifying or removing this file, # create a /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf file, e.g.: # # mkdir -p /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos # echo "FreeBSD-ports: {...

Hah. Many commandline commands (coreutils in Linux speak) re-written in Rust for security, now causing a security issue: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-25.10-Broken-Upgrade " Besides the early fallout of switching to Rust Coreutils on...

Yes the memstick image works from a dedicated stick, but not the iso file on Ventoy.

Hah. Many commandline commands (coreutils in Linux speak) re-written in Rust for security, now causing a security issue: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-25.10-Broken-Upgrade " Besides the early fallout of switching to Rust Coreutils on...

Thank you for the advice. I may end up doing just that. However, I DID discover (after much searching) that the main reason for my problems was that the pointers to the URLs where the files needed to be downloaded from, all FreeBSD.conf files...

Sorry, this is just another one for the books... freebsd-update is oversold without regard for the mess that pkg infrastructure is these days, and without regard for the fact that a lot of hardware drivers are in fact kernel-dependent. I...

Keep in mind that mobile GPUs count one level lower. So a mobile 5090 is a desktop 5080.

I seond the recommendation for the T14 gen1 AMD. Note that there is a T14s, which is the shit version. Don't get that.

Right now the answer is VERY simple. Get used ThinkPad T14 GEN1 with 6-CORE AMD Ryzen 4650U and 16GB and 256GB SSD and 1920x1080 screen for $250 to $300. You can not beat that with any Framework or MacBook.... and compatibility is best with...

Right now the answer is VERY simple. Get used ThinkPad T14 GEN1 with 6-CORE AMD Ryzen 4650U and 16GB and 256GB SSD and 1920x1080 screen for $250 to $300. You can not beat that with any Framework or MacBook.... and compatibility is best with...

Over the past few days, I have attempted to freebsd-update -r 14.3-RELEASE upgrade from 14.2-p3. Every attempt results in this error, among others: "Installing updates.../usr/sbin/freebsd-update: cannot open INDEX-NEW: No such file or...

I investigated a bit further and now have the line "create_args_wlan0='country GB regdomain etsi'" added to my /etc/rc.conf. For the US it would be 'US' and 'FCC', and for other countries in europe, 'ETSI' and the country code. There is a list...

Thanks. It was not bad to be honest - over the years I was able to get used ThinkPad T25 (unfortunately with ISO keyboard) and used FrankenPad with T25 US ANSI keyboard based on ThinkPad T480 (my current main laptop). I once saw Lenovo offer...

We don't have enough information to understand your risk management posture, and you need to tell us before it's possible to suggest a sensible approach. e.g. If the data are valuable and can't be replaced, you should have backups, urgently. If...

I recommend to ensure you have a backup of the data of this pool first. When the second disk also fails your data is toast.

Guild Wars 2 works on FreeBSD 15.0-BETA2!

Yeah, I checked 14.3 with latest and 15.0 and no Vivaldi at this time.

ah, only the best ones 😁

First of all thanks for all the suggestions ! T-Daemon you made my day !! Your suggestion works perfectly that's perfect, many thanks again, and hope that this will be useful for anyone who'd make a research in the future

The tiers are the Rust foundation's. Tier two is "gaurenteed to build". It looks like the only difference between tiers is how much attention they get from the Rust foundation.

most of the time, it is some crate (aka library) that a project is using which breaks / does not build on FreeBSD. Very often the fix is known (or very easy). I've had good success with writing a PR / bug report against such crates, and gotten...

Ok, I'll bite. Taking this thread sideways, when her kids were still babies, to keep them quiet my daughter would give her phone to them. Invariably kids would bash the phone, using it as a hammer. No wonder her phone was always cracked and beat...

most of the time, it is some crate (aka library) that a project is using which breaks / does not build on FreeBSD. Very often the fix is known (or very easy). I've had good success with writing a PR / bug report against such crates, and gotten...

Hi I recently made a clean install of FreeBSD 15.0-BETA1, I selected the option with Pkgbase. My concern now : Is it necessary to go through the whole procedure of buildworld ... buildkernel ... etc... This is not clear to me Regards

Please add following two sysctl keys to /boot/loader.conf and reboot system: kern.geom.label.disk_ident.enable="0" kern.geom.label.gptid.enable="0" This should populate /dev/ada0 with partition device nodes, and the ZFS pool will get the wanted...

I moved my main private email hosting out of Google many years ago. Then with my own mail server I faced a similar problem, but with Microsoft sending my messages to spam. They used to have automated means to rectify that, but after a week or two...

Exactly. I've used FreeBSD on Pi4 before.

Mails are for communication, they provoke communication with this arbitrariness, but block it. Also web.de sent at the beginning my mails to spam, but a simple email to them solved it. At that time, google never treated as spam my emails.

what with all of the genai slop spam being SEO-optimized everywhere, it's unusable even with them

Till now google does not answer. My server is only experimental. If it were in production, this would be a catastrophe. They should put in the headers what the problem is. And they should not 'preventive' send mail to spam from addresses that...

What is the output of smartctl -a /dev/ada0 ? You may need to install sysutilssmartmontools first.

Edited. Edit: It's October 16th. https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/commit/shells/bash/Makefile?id=083f32ccc2dafbe35f8cba3b10bfaba7cbd74be8

The drive is failing and needs to be replaced. ZFS might online the disk after a restart and will attempt to fix data on the disk that isn't correct but it will likely keep happening. As the whole disk is encrypted with GELI, I don't see a...

If I remember correctly the man pages on https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi are generated from a port's (and base OS) man pages. Don't think they're using the HTML documentation.

bash.html is unchanged. diff --git a/shells/bash/Makefile b/shells/bash/Makefile index f320b9b85148..d7bec622b1a6 100644 --- a/shells/bash/Makefile +++ b/shells/bash/Makefile @@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ post-patch: ${RM} ${WRKSRC}/y.tab.c...

Do you want to open a bug report or should I? (you should for proper credit)

GOOD NEWS, IT WORKED! here's the patched patch file: https://termbin.com/aom9

I had a couple R40s for FreeBSD work for a long time. Sadly they all died (wouldn't turn on anymore).

The Foundation wants to hire somebody to take care of the graphics stack: https://freebsdfoundation.org/open-positions/freebsd-graphics-stack-developer-position/

GOOD NEWS, IT WORKED! here's the patched patch file: https://termbin.com/aom9