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Zombie processes consist solely of an entry in the process table containing the exit status of a process that has already terminated. That entry exists so that the parent of the terminated process can execute a wait system call (to collect the...

Using SIGKILL kill -9 <pid> exercises extreme prejudice. The process never knows that it died. That's really bad for any process that needs to maintain external state. SIGTERM (signal 15) was invented for the precise purpose of terminating a...

It looks like a input problem. You could try to start X and an xterm manually to check if the keyboard works correctly. Type X and if that works, start xterm from another system console using ctrl-alt-F?. (Switch back to X with alt-F9) If it...

Rule of thumb as i understand , only do zpool labelclear only on drives where gpart does not show any freebsd-zfs partitions. That is safe.

I don't know what your requirements are, but I built me my NAS completely myself: Old hardware, a couple of storage drives into it (a PCI card to provide more SATA slots) but you already have the hardware. Then just a FreeBSD-RELEASE default...

Until you have X coming up properly I would suggest booting up to a command prompt and the running startx.

Maybe wrong keyboard layout, if your keybord is not en_US and your password contains chars other than alpha-numerics, that is you press the `@` character but it is not. I do not know how to set it up in sddm.

service php-fpm start:- even though it does exist in /usr/local/sbin/php-fpm. Since it exists the only pkg that could have installed it is nextcloud-php85 as that is the only pkg I've installed apart from apache24.

rc.conf : php_fpm_enable="YES" edit /usr/local/etc/php-fpm.d/ as needed ... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I could be wrong !!!, but this is what A.I. says. In FreeBSD, you need to manually enable the...

Unfortunately I can't run it even though it is enabled. It does exist as /usr/local/sbin/php-fpm .

What do you mean by "no known partitions"? You mean like the drive is currently not attached to any pool? My assumption was that labelclear could mess up the pool if I used it on active drive.

Featuremod_phpPHP-FPM Performance❌ lower✅ higher Memory usage❌ high✅ efficient Apache MPMprefork onlyevent/worker Isolation❌ none✅ per pool Scalability❌ limited✅ strong

Sorry, I didn't know.

you can check if everything works fine now with zpool status -x zpool status -v

There was an old pool on the drive with the exact same name, labels are still on disk, so that import fails. I would do absolutely nothing. It's a small annoyance. Maybe once you deleted a partition without "zpool destroy" before.

It seems that php-fpm is a modern replacement for mod_php. What changes do I need to make if I want to use it?

Thank you Alain for explaining this. It has been a while ago but it's possible that I might have done what you said when setting it up, though would that information survive resilvering with new drives? Anyway, I see this warning was added in...

alias pkgx='f() { pkg install -y "$1" | tee /tmp/log; }; f' AI generated ;)

I find it useful to find out whether any of it is correct. Sometimes it is partially correct and people here can point out errors in the AI generated advice.

What about its pkg-message? If OpenSearch was built with the PLUGINS option enabled (default) it will not start until the security plugin is properly configured. Please refer to the OpenSearch documentation for setting-up TLS...

Why don't you try DeepSeek, Z.ai or Qwen for example? Or some other LLM API aggregator?

I see an AI post on a forums as being the same etiquette as posting a google link. I.e: https://www.google.com/search?q=scripts But sometimes (admittedly fairly rarely) that is valid. If its a complex or non-intuitive search, likewise if it is...

I remember umount being unresponsive and not willing to terminate. Also firefox while it was somehow running an internal routine that prevents it from getting killed until it's finished. It's not arbitrary, I think. Zombie processes and such can...

"man kill" kill sends a signal to the process; I think default is SIGTERM. If a process is not in position to actually accept and process signals (no signal handler, blocked somewhere) the default does not work. "kill -9" as superuser is "KILL...

I totally agree with you on every single statement you've made. Thank you for writing this post! Yes, please, it has really become a problem...

Posting anything generated by an AI is completely pointless. Adoring ethusiastically something is one thing. Rub constantly anybody elses noses in it as they were incompetent and ignorant and you were the only one capable of using it, is...

"man kill" kill sends a signal to the process; I think default is SIGTERM. If a process is not in position to actually accept and process signals (no signal handler, blocked somewhere) the default does not work. "kill -9" as superuser is "KILL...

It appears the OP somehow believes the licence propagates throughout the supply chain, which of course it doesn't. He seems to think because I received the code under the BSD licence I am also distributing it with the BSD licence, which I'm not...

I think I could do with an alias such as pkgx which would result in pkg install -y <pkg_to_install> | tee <file_to_save> but not sure how to specify it. Anyone?

It could be a science experiment: a FreeBSD port of a multiplayer dungeon game with AI-generated game mechanics and world but all detaiis can be changed by a person with priority. It's probably going to be psychedelic like those generated videos...

Posting anything generated by an AI is completely pointless. Adoring ethusiastically something is one thing. Rub constantly anybody elses noses in it as they were incompetent and ignorant and you were the only one capable of using it, is...

I disagree, AI has helped me out numerous times. It doesn't always give me the correcr solution but often points me in the correct direction.

I'm talking about a temporary boot solution. With something like Ventoy, I can boot FreeBSD from an ISO and once booted I can create a new (small) partition on the available free space left after installing and can install FreeBSD on it by...

My favorite doom metal band is Type O Negative https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4nQA4NX8FXklISTmga-yqw Bloody Kisses is one of their best albums. View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8oRPK_sxk0&list=OLAK5uy_lsW32Pb-HpN5FJm60sfuhrtQ7IRQrJpLE

rtl8211f phy is a popular a gigabit ethernet phy used in arm sbcs it supports both rgmii and rgmii_id variants (full tx rx) when the gmac node uses it in rgmii mode and the gmac driver sets the delays it works when the gmac node declares the phy...

we replaced LPRng in that role with CUPS as a college sysadmin in the early 2000s. CUPS can absolutely do this. We even added in page accounting that queried the printer for its pagecount register between jobs. :)

You don't actually need fstab to boot. You will end up with mountroot prompt where you can manually enter something like ufs:/dev/da1p2 or somesuch. I always select GPT as the partitioning because I can never remember BSD slices. You just need...

Secure boot is only supported for Windows 8 and up, and some Linux distributions. FreeBSD doesn't support it yet. If you're a beginner I recommend getting more familiar with the system and using packages for now.

Those Dells frequently had power supplies you have to change often. And they don't take ATX PSUs.

My first introduction to ToN was Black Sabbath, a cover of... well, Black Sabbath (I know, shocker!)... from the Nativity in Black tribute album. The first album I bought was Slow, Deep and Hard. And I fell in love with the band. They have such a...

Although not FORTRAN 77 programmers doing operational research, I just ran into an interesting list of Fortran links in the book Modern Fortran: Building efficient parallel applications, by Milan Curcic: Fortran home on the internet...

It's nice to see her releasing new stuff already. This post wouldn't be complete without the latest of Arch Enemy with the great Lauren Hart. View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WujjCSEJcDk

Some very recent releases. View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T21hSKREXGk View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvejV0GLCdw View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8prBTgKYeUM View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sb7JU_emHPw View...

Not doing anything else for years. I have no rolled out FreeBSD system installation. In my opinion this mountroot prompt is only the result of incomplete boot-configuation. It's an unforseen situation, but a PC already has a device order set. If...

You don't actually need fstab to boot. You will end up with mountroot prompt where you can manually enter something like ufs:/dev/da1p2 or somesuch. I always select GPT as the partitioning because I can never remember BSD slices. You just need...

I have this: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/beelink-me-mini.99916/ It works.

Inferno Cop's pretty fun 😆 (short too; 13 eps 3mins ea) View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4g8QNrCamaU

I see this message when booting up the server, right before the "boot:" prompt. The system boots successfully, and operates like normal, but this worries me that if something happens maybe it will bite me in the behind. Any idea what does it...

It makes me think the /etc/fstab is incorrect. If you (UFS) install from memstick 1 to memstick 2 as supposed harddrive, it uses the current device number. Next boot without the install memstick makes it device 1. You have to manually change it...

Those Dells frequently had power supplies you have to change often. And they don't take ATX PSUs.