Latest activity

The SSD (4TB) is brand new but could be a dodgy brand, although has been working fine up until today. Does ZFS need some special parameters with SSD? The command you gave me shows:- That doesn't mean anything to me, maybe to someone else...

Disk (SSD) failures, but not always the drive itself. Cables (riser cards), connectors or power supply lines can also affect. Something to check first would be: If you have sysutils/smartmontools installed, how is the output of smartctl -a...

The term "boot partition" may be misleading, a more accurate term is ESP (EFI system partition). Only the EFI FreeBSD loader (loader.efi ) is needed in the ESP to boot FreeBSD (/efi/freebsd/loader.efi in this case), no other files, and no...

The hang seemed to occur when doing something in Chrome, so I thought I would try to re-install it. In the process of downloading it I get this message:- What to do?

Unfortunately i found this thread after solved the same problem : I have multiples /src sub directories and I want to store all build and dependency file in one directory /build First I use : ${OBJS}: ${@:${BUILD_DIR}%.o=${SRC_DIR}%.c} But I...

Does the system freeze happen when xorg is running or in system console/virtual terminal without xorg running ? If it's happening when xorg is running, is there a drm-kmod video driver loaded? If it is, which one is it?

Like, ask it repeatedly to improve it untill it plateaus?

I don't own a smartphone. For calls and simple messages I use Motorola V180.

no smartphone.

Nokia 3310 for daily use. Sailfish OS on a Sony smartphone for the IPMI.

These discussions are unfortunately a trigger for me, so lets just say I'm going back to a flip phone (text and voice only) when my current verizon contract is up.

That's an amazing number. I just checked: My server has 138 packages installed. Which means I need to go over them one by one and remove some.

pkg install is conservative, this means once a package was found in a repository it will try to re-use this repository on upgrade. [ to circumvent this you can put CONSERVATIVE_UPGRADE: NO in your /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/ files ]

This morning my system, a ThinkPad W520 running FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE hung and was only shut down by powering off. Subsequenty it seems it seems to hang after a few minutes. What can I do to identify the cause? Presumably dmesg will show no...

I tend to like your off-topic threads, but there's already a joke thread, that started in 2008 and is currently up to 55 pages. https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/its-all-about-jokes-funny-pics.286/page-55

The workaround fix was only merged for wine-devel. So you could install wine-devel. Then run /usr/local/share/wine/pkg32.sh --old install wine mesa-dri Then install wine back.

When I was much younger, yes.

Sort of, I was using it in LAN only and was interested by the sharing file part of nextcloud (so clearly overkill for my usage), a jail sharing files via SSH does the job for me, so just a personal shell script to interact with it. Not fancy but...

I am in favor of a security subforum. (although I am not sure that jails belong in there anymore :))

The video is broader than just jails. They identified 40+ kernel vulnerabilities. They then used a couple together to create a proof of concept to break out of a jail. They then call out how easy the exploit was, and how there is lots of work...

The bigger question is - what happens if I ask it to modify the now already existing code?

That is first time it showed you the results. The millions of attempts before were tossed out.

The video is broader than just jails. They identified 40+ kernel vulnerabilities. They then used a couple together to create a proof of concept to break out of a jail. They then call out how easy the exploit was, and how there is lots of work...

A couple years ago my big HDD array got too warm. Good times. Now it has a floor fan pointed to it. Early SATA SSDs - I killed all of those I had for testing when driving them with GELI and ZFS. Set back my adoption timeline for SSDs by a decade.

I just tried to update to RELEASE-15.0. The process seemed to go fine. I used freebsd-update to update to the new release. Then I did the freebsd-update install, rebooted and did it again. Then I did pkg-static upgrade -f. So, all my binary...

Big Bang is Wrong. Big Crunch is coming.... https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/10/physicist-after-33-billon-years-universe-will-end-big-crunch

It would be good to have a place to discuss things like the following presentation: Escaping Containment: A Security Analysis of FreeBSD Jails

I have to say. I have close to a dozen touchscreens. I had limited success with one or two that just worked. The rest were a pile of frustration until I got help from dino1...

When you ask a FreeBSD question, they insist on using bash

Surprising nobody.

I just tried in Antigravity with Gemini3. At least this one compiles the code to test it if you let it (and got it right the first time).

I also had C++ answers that had type errors.

And since ai learns increasingly from ai, this is going to become worse over time. Yay! Job security!

Portal 2 run with linuxulator, with one of the compat option. For Skyrim, you need to have the ncpu patch from either https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/7339 or https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/5213 . If you...

Sadly yes. The commit that added that "X11" option referenced the closed XLibre PR, but it failed to actually fix the underlying problem causing the conflict (the default RUN_TIME dependency on xf86- drivers). I've commented on the thread...

The default is rl9 since a while, make sure your system is updated, and follow latest. As for pkg32.sh it is fixed since at least two release candidate: just run /usr/local/share/wine/pkg32.sh --old upgrade After having installed: pkg install...

Sadly yes. The commit that added that "X11" option referenced the closed XLibre PR, but it failed to actually fix the underlying problem causing the conflict (the default RUN_TIME dependency on xf86- drivers). I've commented on the thread...

I have to say. I have close to a dozen touchscreens. I had limited success with one or two that just worked. The rest were a pile of frustration until I got help from dino1...

freebsd-upgrade & pkgbase are over rated. Just do normal, make installworld.

Surprising nobody.

Reminds me of when I designed computers from the chip level for work and had to keep track of all the propagation delay times through each chip. They had a min and max time that you could sometimes use to your advantage if you needed a signal to...

OK. so yeah, all semiconductors have defined operating ranges but I'm assuming that undervoltage and overvoltage as OP means are to go outside of the specified operating range, which should be bad juju in anyone's book. I had a saying at...

I have to say. I have close to a dozen touchscreens. I had limited success with one or two that just worked. The rest were a pile of frustration until I got help from dino1...

I only just started using IOCAGE jails last week and managed to create three without too much problem. Now I'm trying to create a new one but it fails to get an IP address from my dnsmasq server. All four appear in my iocage list, but none of...

I have to say. I have close to a dozen touchscreens. I had limited success with one or two that just worked. The rest were a pile of frustration until I got help from dino1...

For the record, I've never had to suffer reading anyone doing 5<a. We're talking about equality comparison vs assignment here and how in C/C++ the mistake can slip thru if you don't reverse the operators like I suggest, but then I'm a dinosaur...

No-one is saying write things like '(5 < a)', in fact I've never seen that in any code I've looked at! As for a modern trend... I've been writing code that way to mitigate the '=' is not '==' bug for decades. I haven't heard of this 'pretend...

This particular bug has been documented for decades, for example see Andrew Koenig's original 'C traps and pitfalls' paper here:- https://github.com/kgisl/cs8251/blob/master/files/C_Traps_and_Pitfalls_AndrewKoenig.pdf see paragraph 1.1. This is...

Actually (rval == lval) "(null == x)" is a good way to trigger compiler errors if mistakenly using assignment operator. It is "safe coding" at its finest.