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Gtk2 had a pretty superior theming system. If a desktop were to remain frozen and "old", then it might as well go back to Gnome 2 with Gtk+2. Amusingly I have some historic posts suggesting / predicting this very scenario. If we could put...

Well, for all the machines that were upgraded by source, I simply copied the rc.subr in source to to /etc, to make them work. For the one where I used freebsd-update, I accepted the change, so it also matches the one in source.

I'd compare the existing /etc/rc.subr with a "proper" clean one before doing the upgrade. A simple diff will probably suffice.

This removes the default -u -t flags. -t Serve TCP NFS clients. -u Serve UDP NFS clients. nfsd

Well, I certainly didn't alter /etc/rc.subr, at least not by intension. I too have used freebsd-update, at least until 14 (and my freebsd days go back to bsdi). Really strange. All 5 of my machines must have had the same change. I'll hold of...

https://legallayer.substack.com/p/who-owns-the-claude-code-wrote

Just finished upgrading Gitlab on my VPS from 18.9.x to 18.11.1. No issues. I am using my own custom built repository though.

One other thing: - there is a bcm2712 kernel module which apparently does read the temperature sensor, and also control pwm. - there is a rpi5 module, which implements the fan control but rumors have it that on the Pi 5 the fan is controlled by...

Well, except that it doesn't work either. I can unload the rpi5 module, the bcm2712 module, but the fan just keeps on going. Only if I restart the Pi 5 does the fan stop (I load the modules manually for now).

Another (BIOS/UEFI) setting that might be involved, which graphics card the system initializes first, PEG (PCI Express Graphics) or IGD (Internal Graphics Device), and sometimes "auto" or "multi". In your case that would be PEG (because you have...

I'm only considering Gnomeflashback as a replacement for Mate.You can't stop progress. Gnome is developing rapidly. It's now on version 50, and probably even an iteration more. KDE is developing just as quickly. Other desktop environments are...

I'm not a developer.

Yeah, that has to be the reason. I've used freebsd-update hundreds of times over the years, I've used it ever since it became available. Upgraded countless systems, multiple times. Never did it mess up /etc/rc.subr and never suggested a manual...

Thank you. I'll give a try!

I build from source with a cut down kernel which seems to build the ufs.ko KLM so you should be able to escape at the loader prompt and load that module and then boot (and for subsequent boots add it to loader.conf).

Not sure if at all related, but last night on 15.0-R twice I tried cp -Rf files from USB NTFS to USB UFS and it was fine for a bit, then at some point with my screen DPMS'd off (xfce4-screensaver/display power management; not whole system S1/S3...

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

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?