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The two old 4GB memory sticks were replaced by two new sticks of Kingston HyperX Savage DDR3 2133MHz 16GB, P/N HX321C11SRK2/16. ZFS’ ARC has never been happier.

r436290 renamed devel/py-setuptools27 to devel/py27-setuptools. Here are four portupgrade commands to make amends: Run similar commands for updating the origin of, say, devel/py-setuptools36 to devel/py36-setuptools.

r434380 made massive changes to Qt4 and Qt5 in FreeBSD. Sadly, there are no instructions on how to upgrade an existing system. The changes to ports/head/UPDATING didn’t help at all. Here are the notes I made while upgrading my laptop running stable/11. To successfully install misc/qtchooser and upgrade the remaining Qt4 and Qt5 ports, you […]

I have a few FreeBSD servers I want to virtualise. They all use ZFS for storage, so I figured a zfs send/receive operation would suffice. The tricky part is estimating how large the disks on the receiving end must be. The raidz1 pool will be comprised of three (virtual) disks, After trial and error, I […]

C♯ and mono are both a blessing and a curse. Most documentation, FreeBSD-specific or not, on the internet are more or less outdated. Maybe I was looking in the wrong places. It was really frustrating. Soon this will be outdated too. Start by adding lang/mono. Then add x11-toolkits/libgdiplus.

I noticed the weekdays was missing from xclock‘s digital display when run in FreeBSD base/head aka 11.0-ALPHA6. FreeBSD stable/10 doesn’t have this problem.

I came across Dan Langille post on security/ssl-admin and figured I should try it before my old certificates expires later in 2016. ssl-admin exists mainly for managing OpenVPN certificates, and with some tweaking you can make it work for ordinary SSL/TLS services.

One of my MySQL 5.7.12 instances refused to start after upgrading to FreeBSD’s MySQL port version 5.7.12_1, claiming: 2016-05-18T11:03:26.688719Z 0 [ERROR] InnoDB: The Auto-extending innodb_system data file ‘/var/db/mysql/ibdata1’ is of a different size 4864 pages (rounded down to MB) than specified in the .cnf file: initial 8192 pages, max 0 (relevant if non-zero) pages! “Googling” […]

I too was bitten by the portupgrade uninstall error, due to broken pipes, on my laptop running FreeBSD/amd64 stable/10. Others have identified the file 5.26 utility as the culprit, introduced in stable/10 as r298920. Watch PR 209211 for any progress. base/head was corrected at r299234, and stable/10 will follow soon.

All FreeBSD systems under my care got upgraded last Friday to fix some NTP bugs. That upgrade introduced a new bug in the kernel. The bug first appeared at r298004 in base/head, and later at r298134 in base/stable/10. The i386-based systems were more notably affected than the amd64-based systems, as the former typically has less […]

Category: FreeBSD

New memory for this server

`devel/py-setuptools27` renamed to `devel/py27-setuptools`

Upgrading Qt4 and Qt5 after r434380

Migrating ZFS from mirrored pool to raidz1 pool

FreeBSD has mono

Weekdays missing from `xclock`‘s digital display

`security/ssl-admin` for ordinary SSL/TLS services

MySQL 5.7.12 refusing to run due to innodb_system data file ‘/var/db/mysql/ibdata1’ being too small

portupgrade uninstall error, broken pipe

Memory leaks in recent stable/10 kernel