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As pointed out, there are FFS-free boots such as PXE/NFS boots. I didn't try but I assume booting from ZFS doesn't need FFS compiled in either.

With updating the ports tree (also 2026/Q2 quarterly), it builds again for me. Thanks for fixing it!

The error occurs when running the yarn install --production --pure-lockfile part. From the error log: Trace: Error: unable to get local issuer certificate at TLSSocket.onConnectSecure (node:internal/tls/wrap:1656:34) at...

The old disk was formatted with UFS, the new one with zroot. I made a fresh install and the copied the essential stuff from /etc/, /usr/local/ and /var/ to the new installation. My packages are build with poudriere and were all reinstalled. I...

As said before, in this situations is better BSD without Desktop Environments, no GhostBSD. The whole is then simpler and you have more control. It is good to learn to deal with omnipresent twm.

Hate to answer my own posts - already reported bug: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=294631

It's an already reported bug: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=294631

Funny... seems like I'm not alone.... same issue: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/can-no-longer-install-py-ports.102530/

For some unknown reason, I'm no longer able to install any python package on my FreeBSD 15 system. py-build> make ===> License MIT accepted by the user ===> py314-build-1.4.4 depends on file: /usr/local/sbin/pkg - found ===> Fetching all...

The current KDE is a triumph of style over substance. A terribly overgrown hole. I remember the KDE2 days... Then I also used KDE3 and KDE4. KDE5. KDE3 was quite nice and light... All simple environments basically don't develop.But large...

I've also been thinking about lxqt lately. It's a very lightweight KDE, not crammed with unnecessary environment configurations, modeled on lxde but based on a built/rewritten Qt.

I got the onboard GE NIC nominally working now. https://github.com/aphor/FreeBSD15-RPi5-modules/tree/9bb1842044993dea7b61e7d20ec883d024333889 Submit issues on GitHub if you want to test and contribute. I have been concentrating on runtime...

As pointed out, there are FFS-free boots such as PXE/NFS boots. I didn't try but I assume booting from ZFS doesn't need FFS compiled in either.

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...