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The horse.. it's dead, Jim.

I managed to fix the problem; I just needed to update the loader, something I thought I'd already done. cp /boot/loader.efi /boot/efi/efi/freebsd/loader.efi cp /boot/loader.efi /boot/efi/efi/boot/bootx64.efi However, I haven't been able to get...

I've been a Linux user for a few years. Started on Linux Mint, which was great as refugee from Windows initially, but moved to MX to get off Ubuntu base, and became aware of systemd and IBM's influence through Red Hat and Fedora. I am now on...

1995 - I'm on MS-DOS then on Windows 95 1998 - on Windows 98 2000 - on ME :p (loved reinstalling it every week) 2001-2009 - on XP ❤️ 2009-2013 - on Windows 7 :( 2013-2025 - hackintosh user 🔥 (4 desktops) I have a university degree in Information...

I migrated from gnu/linux , gnu/Guix around October 25. Am really find various flavours interesting and used them for around two decades. But Freebsd was my choice once I wanted to settle for my free open source project ‘relysam’ a core...

Windows and Linux user. Ages ago (around 1999-2000 maybe) I used FreeBSD on my desktop computer with twm for about a year, and now I was curious where it has grown. And for my absolute complete surprise, I managed to install it on my 11" macbook...

This worked out! cat /usr/local/etc/poudriere.conf | grep SOCKS export SOCKS5_PROXY=localhost:12000

What does sysctl hw.acpi.power_button_state show? To suspend/resume, it should show other than "S5" from the "supported_sleep_state" of your system. If this is not the case, the loader tunable can be set in /boot/loader.conf or...

Signal worked, I have no idea about the dependencies. I think I may upgrade to 15.1 soonish.

Reinstalling the same package isn't going to change the timestamp of the actual executable. A pkg is in essence a tar archive with some additional metadata.

That sounds like it's been shutdown (i.e. turned off), not suspended. In general, no. One possibility is the UPS is running on battery (due to power loss) and when the battery is low, signalling the system to shutdown. I'd check...

I have been reading the handbook on cronjobs lately in an attempt to learn more about FreeBSD and how to get the most out of it. So, I recently wrote a small cronjob and implemented it. It runs daily along with the daily system cronjobs which...

As would a good old google search (or any other search engine).I cannot count the number of times my dad called me for some problem he was having. Had been searching all day, never finding anything worthwhile. I typically find whatever he was...

Google search is awful these days So using AI like Gemini can sometimes help finding the information you are looking for However it can also send you on a wild goose chase When it works it can helpful, until it goes haywire in which case you...

Doing a build is a good litmus test for your hardware. It'll burn through a lot of memory, fire up all cores and produce a ton of I/O.

Oh, right, it was already removed from the 14 base. All the more reason to stop using it.

It's 13.x. ports-mgmt/portsnap $ grep portsnap /usr/ports/MOVED ports-mgmt/portsnap||2026-05-04|Has expired: portsnap infrastructure will be removed after the EOL of 13.x

For ports: ports-mgmt/poudriere, ports-mgmt/Synth. Build what exactly in parallel? It already does, where possible. If you're looking for ways to speed up the build, have a look at WITH_META_MODE; https://wiki.freebsd.org/MetaMode It's not...

Please stop using portsnap. When 14 is EoL the entire portsnap infrastructure will be removed.

We don't support that here when ports and packages already exist. Use the ports or the packages.

Why would you want to use the upstream sources when we have two ports and two corresponding packages? Besides, the sourceforge sources won't build on on FreeBSD without patches.

European feudalism ended in the 15th century. Of the 44 European countries, only 7 still have a monarchy . And those are all constitutional monarchies. My country for example the King only has a ceremonial function, nothing more. So no, the King...

Maybe it's a dependency or build issue (not sure details), but FreshPorts only shows 15/16 latest pkgs at the moment (and older vers for 13): https://www.freshports.org/net-im/signal-desktop Did signal work before with node-npm24? Iirc on...

That will work for the same version (MAJOR.MINOR). Come back in the next major or in two minors and the steps may not work. List of stuff that may change between the next 15.x minors: DRM setup for your hardware (old versions may drop out of...

I think I can set it up, because I saved all the relevant steps into a text file and uploaded it to Google drive :cool:

Yep. If I'm going to use it I look at its response but then check to see what it recommends so I understand exactly what it's doing. So if it says to do something like "set sys.kern.widget to zero" I'm going to make sure I know what that does and...

I was joking about the if statement obviously im sure most users on the forum and the mods wouldnt want to deal with lots of new users who cant be bothered to read the handbook or man pages And who have just used AI to try and install Freebsd...

Windows :cool: That's kind of an interesting point for me as of recent: FreeBSD still offers a lot for me to mess with and learn while it can stand as a usable desktop. I can do more with gaming from Windows and general stuff like connecting to...

Maybe not make a typo in the name? It's postgresql18-server, not postgresqll8-server.

For me, all that came as a later problem to figure out and solve :D AI isn't reliable so I can't take it's output. I look around online for others that ran into similar situations, look at various ways to solve it, figure out a clean way to...

Can anyone shed any light on what is going on here? Installing supplied packages...

pkg install something anotherthing morestuff | tee messages-log.txt You could use a simple redirect of course, but then you won't see any output on the screen. Hence the use of tee.

pkg install something anotherthing morestuff | tee messages-log.txt You could use a simple redirect of course, but then you won't see any output on the screen. Hence the use of tee.

Sort of, but I would like to create log of of these msgs at the time they are installed

I hope there is an option to not install a X11 login manager. I use Xorg, nvidia and KDE and wouldn't mind at all if the installer could just set it all up. But I don't use login managers. I don't think there is much leeway in installing the...

The developer of the desktop support functionality uses fwget to figure out whether or not it's possible to load drm-kmod and which firmware is needed (though there is still work needed on this). For nvidia he's created a map with the pci-ids...

Great. Do we have that as a port, or is it inside their install procedure? Where can I find more details on it, quick google isn't revealing much?

Are you sure? GhostBSD seems to do it, what used to be TrueOS (ixSystems) did the same too

Easily done after the fact, pkg info -Da > messages.txt -a, --all Display all installed packages. -D, --pkg-message Show the pkg-message for matching packages. pkg-info Edit: Didn't you ask this before?

Does anyone have any tips on how to automatically record msgs from pkg install when installing pkgs so they can be referred to subsequently? An alias with additional commands would be useful.

FlipperZero does infrared I believe. https://docs.flipper.net/zero/infrared More Antennas https://swling.com/blog/2022/08/small-unidirectional-loop-antenna-sula-part-2-construction-notes/

Install x11/cde and follow the post install message instructions.

Unix is my IDE

https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/freebsd-forums-rules.38922/

As Alain De Vos says, labs tend to be extremely friendly, and again it would help if we knew what was behind it. Did he jump on a child and a parent over-react? It does seem as if you will need a lawyer, regardless of the cause. Regardless of...

This means changing Python users in lang/python*

For that reason defining a strict rule in the AFFECTS make usable pkg updating without modifying the already existing code of pkg updating

Note that pkg is still under active development. And I think this is why in-base pkg is just a bootstrap tool and actual one is provided via ports/pkgs.

T-Aoki Ok, you are right, there are a lot of things that plays this game and complicate the job, but returning to the initial problem: running pkg updating get me the list of installed ports that I must pay attention before upgrading them. It...

Unfortunately, it's not always correct. There are hidden dependencies that even the maintainer don't notice. This often happenes when the port is using some kind of toolkits and the port itself seemingly using the toolkit only, but some calls...