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If I understand correctly, you already lock the packages. I don't understand why you need to find another way to prevent the package from being upgrade which you already did. Enlighten me.

it did not, in fact, "confess" anything. it is a token-predicting chat model. it has no capacity for reasoning or ability to give a confession. you might as well say "my tarot deck confessed to me"

You'll have to look at the run.sh to see what it's doing. Is it online somewhere? A quick and dirty hack would be to just run it inside tmux.

FWIW, drm-kmod currently hangs a -current machine with AMD GPU for me. I hate these games.

This might be related to the update of the nvidia-driver to version 595. This driver does not support GTX 10xx series graphics cards. I have a similar PC on which I previously simply installed: pkg install nvidia-driver (without specifying a...

FreeBSD15 only support wifi cards intel ax200 or ax210 series on 11ac. Other will be stuck on 11g if I am not wrong. Alternative an less ideal solution but can get u run on faster speed is using a linux vm wificard passthrough solution...

I never use .0 versions on anything I care about losing.

I don't think there are any NVidia drivers involved there, though?

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...

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.

The OS provider can just say "we asked the user and they said they were 21, so we're OK." Nobody gets sued successfully. Starting to make sense, no?

It won't bite me. Doing this for years. The system build compiler variables have never been consistent in my opinion. What command do I need when I copied the entire /usr/obj to another clean system tree? (This might sound overcomplicated but...

As far as anything "official", NO_CLEAN (or any of the variations) certainly isn't recommended to do, it has a few caveats you need to be aware of. And they will bite you at some point. A better solution, albeit not perfect, is WITH_META_MODE...

Use the existing completed results in /usr/obj. What's the official way in FreeBSD 15 without using connfiguration files and only command parameters? NO_CLEAN=1 WITHOUT_CLEAN=1 -DNOCLEAN Other options involve changing make.conf or src.conf...

I have been running a vanilla minecraft server for some time, and wanted to add a mod instance. I have setup a jail for this, and within the jail, vanilla minecraft server is working in daemon mode fine. The specific mods require 1.21.1 and...

Welcome to hell. I have been working with such issues for the past 10 years. Which exact command does that? If you know which one, run: `truss -f -o cmd.out <command>`. Will will see which `fopen()` OpenSSL performs to load the certificate from a...

Does it run out of FDs?

https://github.com/ebrandi/FDD-book FreeBSD Device Drivers: From First Steps to Kernel Mastery is a free, open-source book that takes you from "I've never written kernel code" to "I can write, debug, and submit production-quality FreeBSD...

either wait until the PR is fixed upstream, or deinstall + install the port or install via package

Hmm, considering Windows or Gnome 3 hasn't nailed this properly yet, I feel that may be out of scope for an actual desktop environment in 2026. Perfection is the enemy of good and I am starting to suspect that Gtk3's approach can't get us there...

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.