Category: FreeBSD
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portupgrade uninstall error, broken pipe
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.
Read More → portupgrade uninstall error, broken pipeMemory leaks in recent stable/10 kernel
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 […]
Read More → Memory leaks in recent stable/10 kernelBSD vs Linux
Brandon J. Wandersee’s recent post on the FreeBSD Questions mailling list pointed me to Matthew Fuller‘s BSD vs Linux. Enjoy! You should replace every mention of “CVS”, “CVSup”, and “pkg_*” with “Subversion” (SVN), “SVNup”, and “pkg *”, respectively. I.e., the command pkg_add becomes the command pkg add (with no underscore), etc.
Read More → BSD vs LinuxKBDMUX_DFLT_KEYMAP is available for base/head and base/stable/10
Finally, KBDMUX_DFLT_KEYMAP is available for those of us using keyboard layouts different from the US/UK keyboard layout. This is very handy when running in single-user mode.
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Hidden properties in ZFS
I learned ZFS hides certain filesystem and pool properties from normal view. You need to know their names and specify them explicitly to get their values. Use the option -p to get the raw value of the filesystem properties. E.g. zfs get -p createtxg.
Read More → Hidden properties in ZFSReplacing drives on AMANDA server
I spent some days last week converting our 32-bit AMANDA server to a 64-bit counterpart using spare but aged hardware. The former AMANDA server ran on very aged hardware in comparison. Going 64-bit also ment turning to ZFS-based storage. Today, I replaced the two 320 GB first generation SATA drives with two 1 TB third […]
Read More → Replacing drives on AMANDA serversecurity/gnupg breaks when deselecting NLS option
GnuPG 2.1.11 was recently added to the FreeBSD ports collection, in r409152. Deselecting the NLS option breaks the building of GnuPG.
Read More → security/gnupg breaks when deselecting NLS optionUpgrading PostgreSQL 9.4.6 to 9.5.1
All commands were done as the root user unless indicated.
Read More → Upgrading PostgreSQL 9.4.6 to 9.5.1graphics/py-pygraphviz renamed from graphics/py-graphviz
graphics/py-graphviz was renamed to graphics/py-pygraphviz in r408353. Run these two commands to get back on track:
Read More → graphics/py-pygraphviz renamed from graphics/py-graphvizFreeBSD’s UEFI boot loader now supports ZFS pools
As of r294999 it’s possible to boot FreeBSD/amd64 stable/10 from ZFS pools on systems running UEFI firmware. Up until now I have booted my UEFI ZFS laptop using the older boot1.efi boot loader with /boot located on a UFS partition. Earlier today I updated my EFI System Partition (ESP), put /boot back where it belongs, […]
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