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Profile post May 28, 2026: Warning: the new version of consolekit2 (2.0.0) doesn't support anymore the option --exit-with-session. You cannot startx until you remove it in ~/.xinitrc (or ~/.xsession).

I just tried removing the parameter --exit-with-session line from my .xinitrc which had been xrdb -load ~/.Xresources ck-launch-session dbus-launch --exit-with-session startlxde and now lxde comes up ok. Things had been working with this...

"I mean, seriously, how often do you really look at a man's shoes?" - Red, The Shawshank Redemption

Why should I not be allowed to express my opinion, since ruby-r53 clearly felt entitled to state his? Or are you telling me that "some are more equal than others"? Yes, if the guy is funding the website himself, he can do whatever he likes with...

I couldn't care less about people's sexual preference, but I'm against using this as massive flag to pull attention in public, all about this preference, like it's the primary life goal. That's just cultural decline to the primitive. They have...

I have just upgraded to 15.1 from 15.0 and after an initial hiccup the system come up normally. The problem I have is that I cannot start X although I have done a pkg upgrade. Things were working fine before the upgrade, but now startx exits...

slop! slop! slop!

By means of my power meters :)

Been smooth on several upgrades. I did run into issues with the machine that had an Nvidia card. I also used bectl first to create a backup boot environment. For me, I had to, after updating the machine with Nvidia, update ports to the newest...

Same issue here, running from shell for now and moving on with life. Tracking the upstream bug.

As this is probably the first instance of release FreeBSD being upgraded by another means, I wanted to do some chit chat before the upgrade. The minor version bump using pkgbase looks pretty straightforward. However the major version bump seems...

No need to delete the pkg, just comment out the line. Pkg upgrade after freebsd-update will pull in the relevent new version.

Thanks for the explanation. Everything is fixed now.

In my original post you see what unbound gives (host -t NS . localhost). What seems OK for you?!

No need to delete the pkg, just comment out the line. Pkg upgrade after freebsd-update will pull in the relevent new version.

Thanks for the explanation. Everything is fixed now.

That didn't change anything. I suspect you did freebsd-update install, then rebooted. Boot to single user mode, disable kld_list in rc.conf. Reboot and continue with the upgrade. Your DRM driver is the one that's crashing the system, it was...

And what does drill @8.8.8.8 . NS in your computer?

How did you check? There are "FreeBSD-kernel-generic-nodebug" packages available for 16.0 aarch64: Packages from (browsable) base_latest/ pkg repository directory on 2026-Jun-17 23:23...

I'm not fond how of HardenedBSD has splintered the community and potential resources for FreeBSD. They could've simply relegated to being a security patchkit for vanilla FreeBSD. (ie. grsecurity, Hardened Gentoo) With pkgbase, I see less reason...

Yes. Do as SirDice says. But also pkg delete whatever drm-kmod you have and reinstall it. Then reenable kld_list in rc.conf and reboot.

I'm not sure whether it still applies, but there is also a patch attached to 278230 addressing this very problem.

That didn't change anything. I suspect you did freebsd-update install, then rebooted. Boot to single user mode, disable kld_list in rc.conf. Reboot and continue with the upgrade. Your DRM driver is the one that's crashing the system, it was...

Where's the hostility? I had the RPI0 wifi and a Videocore proof of concept working in NetBSD. The reason there's no real graphics driver is apparently based on confidential internal road choices, not technical barriers. Patents and copyrights...

I'm in the process of upgrading from 15.0 to 15.1 and have just done a reboot after running freebsd-update -r 15.1-RELEASE upgrade and am greeted with ThinkPad W520 16G RAM What to do?

Is this normal?! # drill @8.8.8.8 . NS ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, rcode: NOERROR, id: 37605 ;; flags: qr aa rd ra ; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;; . IN NS ;; ANSWER SECTION: . 0...

'latest' has to do with the ports tree, not the OS version. The ports tree is continuously updated, modified and whatnot. The 'latest' packages are built from the 'latest' (main) branch of the ports tree. The 'quarterly' packages are built from a...

kernel: battery0: critically low charge!

If the system shuts down, the shutdown will be recorded in /var/log/messages. If the battery is set up correctly, the system should go through shutdown before the battery runs out. If the system just stops, dmesg and /var/log/messages can't...

The new employee logged three times more issues than I did in the same month. In the following weeks I ended up at zero — not because I wasn’t working, but because I was busy fixing a huge number of bugs and repeatedly redesigning the code he...

That's his observation, as he states, without powerd(++). If you have different values, we are happy to hear about it - this thread is 2 years old. Surely something has changed since then? I can, btw, confirm these 50% since FreeBSD is not...

Are you sure about learning anything? Because my experience is, that people learn exactly nothing by using tools like that. No.

If the system shuts down, the shutdown will be recorded in /var/log/messages. If the battery is set up correctly, the system should go through shutdown before the battery runs out. If the system just stops, dmesg and /var/log/messages can't...

The STEC ZeusRAM is a SAS SSD based on supercap-backed DRAM that flushes to flash upon power loss. When it first came out, it was a great choice for ZFS log devices. But by now it's old. Today we rebooted the last server at $WORK that still...

Does aarch64 have a FreeBSD-kernel-generic-nodebug pkg available? I like running CURRENT, but on a RPi4 didn't notice a nodebug pkg available on 16.0.

slop! slop! slop!

Now it's powered by 5V off an ATX PSU with a USB HDD for NAS powered by 12V from CPU 4-pin; Pi 4 is awesome! :D Didn't have female breadboard wires, but a random computer case wire (maybe CD audio to mobo) happened to have 4 wires in a row and...

I guess the 3 series BMW that the thieves drive has a converter that is difficult to get to... low clearance, and the underside actually has no visible parts, just a flat panel! I know that, because I drive the same model... 😅

The worst if it is when they include poorly configured sudo for admin tasks and disable root.

Never heard of tuptime before but thanks for drawing my attention to it.

Not quite what you're after but does report number of startups/shut downs, system life etc

Nah it's for popcorn 😆 View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_kbYpYZqqc

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How would we know? Are you expecting us to watch that video to find out? What's wrong with people, can you not write a question using words?

Updating bootloaders (my opinion based on what I've experienced): Historically it's safe. Today's bootloader must have knowledge of last years filesystems (backwards compatibility) and has knowledge of "today", but can't know about "tomorrow"...

Locomotive breath... View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyyQ2XRPOnI

Wild turkey... a blast from the past... :-) View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEbM8ifzuyc View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyDldGSUwcA

Why bother with it? Just dd to a usb

https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/running-a-gpu-accelerated-llm-on-freebsd-2-line-howto.102445/

I use Claude AI in a browser, which means you can do it on any platform. I'm not a "professional user" of it though. You can upload your files/projects and ask questions using normal English (and I believe, español también).