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Thin clients don't need it, they boot from a network filesystem.

Ok but there are other options that are not strictly necessary, like INET6, that make the MINIMAL kernel "not so minimal". But without FFS the kernel does not boots up.

Yes I read the posts, but I don't understand the reasons for not to add FFS to MINIMAL config. I think that MINIMAL kernel should be something that just boots. But it is not so important, in the end.

When exactly are you getting this error? There's lots of steps in the instruction. One of them will try to download files from the internet (mostly nodeJS stuff), that might be the part that's failing.

I had only to add FFs options, and the kernel boots. I've also removed more options, like INET6 and virtualization. I'm just hacking, to test the minimal kernel possible. But I think that it would be cleaner to have FFS enabled by default, and...

I've finished upgrading my machines to 15.0 and thought I would summerize what happened. I took Emrion's advice and did one machine with freebsd-update. In that case, I found the merging process somewhat obscure. For example, it got to merging...

I reported it 2 years ago: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=276240 Tried to fix it here but wasn't successful: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/pull/1020

When you write your config you include the default config file. Then you enable or disable specific options. Eg, cat MYKERNCONF include GENERIC ident MYKERNEL options IPFIREWALL # enables IPFW options...

I'm one of the non UK-ers who didn't know that. Somewhere I'd read it was because they were short (not kidding, but I don't remember where I saw that).

Maybe it's not all that well known outside the UK that "Faces" was slang for gangsters inside the london crime scene. So "small faces" means junior gangsters...

The NYC BSD group is still active. When they first started, Apple provided a place to meet, back when Apple were more of the good guys. I think the first version of OSX had come out a bit before. Now, it's usually a downtown restaurant...

Not using any soft boot system for years, only the BIOS/UEFI device selector. Usually set to default USB and if that doesn't exist it takes the configured internal drive.

The interesting question is - did it work after the reinstall but before restoring the backup. You didn't tell us how deep that backup was.

Yes, please update. We had the same restaurant since the first meeting, for 30 years minus 1 month. That went through 2 kitchen fires. But they folded 1 month too early for 30 years, so there's a new toy now.

No. debootstrap is the closest equivalent.

gdisk sorted out the problem without the need for sysctl.

No. debootstrap is the closest equivalent.

It can be configured to run that way, yes. It can also run as a "stand-alone" daemon. It's basically a check to verify the account hasn't been disabled (nologin). If it is it shows the contents of /var/run/nologin, or whatever file the nologin...

FFS shouldn't be in MINIML otherwise it wouldn't be minimal.

Thanks for the input, the error messages appear to have stopped and ftpd seems to work out of inetd. Can't say that I understand everything, especially the no_login.so for the account section, but everything appears to work, and I even think I...

Yes, you probably did something wrong. But you didn't answer the question, how many times did you run freebsd-update install? None? Once? Twice? Three? Try /rescue/sh instead of /bin/sh.

It was an upgrade to 15.0 and I now realise I did something wrong, but after rebooting I cannot boot. I get stuck at libsys.so.7 not found, with the 'helpful' message:] Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh: Whatever I type shows...

So you only did it once? I'm assuming it was a major version upgrade? From 13 or 14 to 15.0? Then you should be doing it THREE times actually, the third and final install stage will remove all the libraries and files from the previous version. Or...

I also use Mate on FreeBSD as my main desktop environment. Recently, I've even been thinking about what could replace it. The only alternative is the gnome-flashback mode/project, which is visually similar to MATE but based on the newer GTK...

I am in a situation where I have upgraded to 15.0-RELEASE and forgotten to run freebsd-update install twice. I'm in situation where I can't do anything when booting because I get message about libsys.so.7 not found. I tried single user mode...

One thing I love about FreeBSD is that you can install it simply by extraction of two archived files unto a UFS partition and boot it immedately with a boot loader such a Ventoy for example. Can you do something similar with anything else? For...

Had a look on an older 13 server, /etc/pam.d/ftpd should look like this: % cat /etc/pam.d/ftpd # # # PAM configuration for the "ftpd" service # # auth #auth sufficient pam_krb5.so no_warn #auth sufficient...

LibreOffice is only necessary for reading what people send you with LibreOffice. One does not need it really. Plain TeX is enough for me. Also a "desktop environment" is not necessary, twm is enough. Renouncing to that things make life easier...

I've been using LibreOffice for a decade and more with no issues upgrading. I understand there was an issue with some Nvidia drivers during the recent 15.0 upgrade but I did not experience that. I have NEVER had an issue with "pkg upgrade"...

I cannot actually reproduce what caused your problem in detail, and I still stumble over the "everything" in since this ain't clear: your directory you keep your LibreOffice files in, your /home/, or your whole system? To me it seems, there are...

Well, this is funky: # cat /etc/pam.d/ftpd # # PAM configuration for the "ftp" service. This is not used by the FreeBSD # ftpd(8), but is provided for compatibility with FTP servers from ports. # # auth auth include ftpd #...

It worked!!!!! Phew! gpart show da0 => 34 625142381 da0 GPT (298G) 34 2014 - free - (1.0M) 2048 100720640 1 linux-data (48G) 100722688 65536 2 ms-basic-data (32M) 100788224 1048576...

So do I press 'Y' to correct this problem? If not then what?

bsdhh (Hamburg) is very much active. Not sure why it doesn't show up in the list. www.bsdhh.org We lost out 30 year restaurant lately, though.

I would not take COVID alone in account for many local user groups fall asleep. I would also blame the desocialization through social media. People meet more online theses days. It's more comfortable, but also way less fun.

A few things... first thing I noticed: If you're building from the ports collection then always make sure that your /etc/make.conf file is in proper order, especially when your build process starts to spit out warnings. See also...

pkg delete openssl

Is the FTP accessible from the internet? You might be getting hammered with bruteforce attacks.

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After backing up all the partitions I'm going to select v k j w after running gdisk /dev/da0. Should I expect this to clear the problem? I find it strange that gdisk /dev/da0 p will display all the partition information, whereas gpart da0 tells...

Delete, make clean and let it reinstall (or make install and pkg set -yA1 py311-build). You may need to do the same with py-wheel.

White square? Not a xterm? if that, then type twm& Probably, I frequently get always such problems upgrading, and that is the reason that I avoid upgrading a working system. I never get these problems with OpenBSD. They are always solved by...

You surprized? When was the first Terminator movie? Back when my parents bought me the Jules-Verne books, I have learned that ScienceFiction is the foretelling of what is going to happen. John Brunner's "Shockwave Rider" has become fully true...

Love how "what needs to change" doesn't include "fire the 'employee' that deleted the database"

I use NVIDIA with "Closed source BLOB" on all my BSD & Linux installs. When you use these they are rockstable and work fine. [Don't use Nouveau.....] The BSD NVIDIA driver is a wrapper around something "Closed source" by NVIDIA. I had never any...

Switching to Linux is not going to fix that. From the sounds of some postings here one would think they struggle mightily day to day. Nothing could be further from reality.

Thanks for sharing such details clarification. Ya, based on my experience, there are frictions on Nvidia card and its drivers on FreeBSD due to close source nature of it. You are much better with AMD cards. It doesn't mean you can't use...

Well, unfortunately I already reformatted my root directory, and right now I'm installing Ghost BSD as a means of transferring all of my documents to an external hard drive, until I can come up with a reliable solution for a numpty person like...

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A black screen like crash-hang? Libreoffice doing a save action doesn't cause that. It has nothing to do with it. Personally, no way I'd leave this without even getting a hint of what's going on. It's against fundamental tech geek principles.