this may get a bit repetitive with me re-listing everything, so instead I am just going to link to the first post that has the list of things to do… note I have added a couple of things at the bottom so the numbers now go past 20…
1. 75% in progress, troubleshooting and more testing needed. I have gotten my user added the the “VirtualBox” user group, but I get this error when I try to execute VirtualBox from the command line ”VirtualBox: supR3HardenedExecDir: couldn’t read “”, errno=2 cchLink=-1“ I tried loading VirtualBox from KDE and it was loading for about 12 seconds then nothing happend, also it did not install a manual page. I’ll have to do some forum surfing to figure this one out. this exact error is referrenced in the FreeBSD handbook noting that it should only occur if you are using an older version on VirtualBox.
2. 0% not started. no updates yet, holding off till I get some of these other tasks complete.
3. 100% complete. everything is automounting at bootup and it is doing it where I want it to.
4. 100% complete. I am working almost exclusively via ssh now and can connect to it remotely as tested via an Android cell phone ssh client (props to connectbot)
5. 10% in progress, researched only. Chrome can be installed as a Debian, Ubuntu, openSUSE, or Fedora package, I just need to set my system up to handle RPMs and I might be able to get it to install, hopefully the newest version will work easier than last august when everyone was trying to hack the install to make it work, especially since every forum I went to never had a successful complete port available and there were no posts from 2010 and the maintainer of the hacked port is not doing updates anymore except those that match his specific system configuration.
6. duplicate issue. going to delete this one, as #19 and #20 pretty much sum it up.
7. 30% in progress, trouble shooting and additional testing required. as noteded else where VirtualBox is installed but not able to run, and I have not started on VMWare.
8. 100% complete. Firefox 3.6.2 is installed and operational.
9. 90% in progress, trouble shooting and more testing needed. self testing shows that a user is able to ssh in and access the drives, but is not able to ftp in and access the drives. I used “sudo ln -s /mnt/<directory> /home/<user>/<directory>” I haven’t used links much and need to see if the -s (symbolic) is what is preventing the user from accessing the data via ftp.
10. 0% not started. no updates yet, holding off till I get some of these other tasks complete.
11. 20% in progress, 1 out of 5 drives is currently running with GPT. the new 1.5TB drive was setup with GPT when installed into the system. the new 500GB drive (FreeBSD boot drive) is still MBR as the FreeBSD fdisk application did not have an option for setting the drive boot record to GPT, although I have found documentation on converting the FreeBSD boot drive to GPT.
12. 0% in progress, initial research turned up nothing useful.
13. -30% not started, situation worsening, additional packages labeled as “gnome-xxxx” or “xxxxx-gnome” have been added as dependencies during other package installations.
14. 10% in progress, initial research has turned up useful information; however I am not currently in a possition to proceed.
15. 0% not started. no updates yet, holding off till I get some of these other tasks complete.
16. 0% not started. no updates yet, holding off till I get some of these other tasks complete, will require at least one of #’s 1, 2, 7, or 15 to be complete before work can begin.
17. 0% not started. no updates yet, holding off till I get some of these other tasks complete, not a priority and very near the bottom of the list of things to do.
18. 40% in progress. Still leaning towards rsync, but I have been researching into using dump and I think it will do what I want it to.
19. 60% in progress, I thought I had it installed, but when I went to the test if you have java installed page of www.java.com it failed to test my java installation (might need to add the plugin for firefox, will check); however the java download page only lists “Windows, Mac OS, and Linux” as OS choices, so I will have to do more research.
********update – I am making a java install page because this was such a pain in the rump to do.***********
20. 40% in progress, I thought I had it installed, but when I went to hulu it told me I need java 10.0.22, also amd.com told me I need the flash plugin installed; however again there is no FreeBSD listing on the download page as a supported OS, so I will have to do more research.
21. 100% complete. (I know I added this one) get Yakuake working in KDE, well I did a “sudo pkg_add -r yakuake” and it started downloading, it has about 6 dependencies and those had about 150 dependencies, most of which I already had installed. the problem I saw was it force downloaded KDE 3.5 and all of it’s dependencies, I hope that doesn’t screw anything up. If I remember correctly from when KDE 4.0 first came out they specifically named the port KDE4 instead of just KDE so that there would not be conflicts on systems that had both versions installed. after it finished I ran a “sudo pkgdb -F” it found a lot of stale dependencies and fixed them, one thing I noticed fly by was Firefox 3.0.## which tells me I need to check my Firefox and see if it is 3.0 or 3.6…
22. 10% researched only. Get Picasa installed and working, this will be just like chrome and will require using RPM packages.
23. 100% complete. as part of #5 and #22 (and because I always install this on FreeBSD, but it failed during initial OS installation for some reason) I am installing the linux compatibility/emulation pack. I’ll do a brief post on this and link it here.
right back again… I tried that and it told me I had to do a sudo make distclean so I did that and got the exact same error again!!! What is really starting to piss me off is this is (again) a freaking gnome specific app, do I really have to instlal gnome to get my FreeBSD to actually function with KDE? this is starting to piss me off really bad. not to mention FreeBSD has started reporting that my CPU is reaching a critical temp and then shuts my computer off, yet when I restart it (within 10 seconds) and go into the BIOS and check the system it still shows a CPU temp of 40C which is pretty freakin cold for not having any liquid cooling in my case (probably is so cool because I am using an onboard video card…) and THAT is annoying. what is worse, when I check it with sysctl (I think that is the command in FreeBSD) it ALWAYS reports my CPU at 30C on every core, so I know ACPI is not working, but if I boot using boot option 2 (boot without ACPI) the system locks up and fails to boot, so I can not find a way around that problem either.
Only when youare about to give up… hmm… I did a search on this error and came up with a completely different issue (with same error though) and got a solution that seems to have worked… USE GMAKE (funny, as the install instructions just say “make”). ran a sudo pkgdb -F all good, ran a sudo portupgrade -ra and still getting the failed gcc compiler message for multi-threaded…
** Listing the failed packages (-:ignored / *:skipped / !:failed)
! devel/boost-python-libs (boost-python-libs-1.39.0) (missing header)
! x11-toolkits/linux-f10-pango (linux-f10-pango-1.22.3) (unknown build error)
! textproc/py-libxml2 (py26-libxml2-2.7.5) (missing header)
! devel/apr (apr-ipv6-gdbm-db42-1.3.8.1.3.9) (unknown build error)
! misc/iso-codes (iso-codes-3.10.3) (missing header)
* devel/subversion (subversion-1.6.5)
! devel/py-gobject (py26-gobject-2.16.1) (configure error)
* x11/libxklavier (libxklavier-3.9,1)
! sysutils/consolekit (consolekit-0.3.0_8) (configure error)
! java/diablo-jre16 (diablo-jre-1.6.0.07.02) (checksum mismatch)
! graphics/py-cairo (py26-cairo-1.8.8) (configure error)
* x11-toolkits/py-gtk2 (py26-gtk-2.14.1_1)
! multimedia/gstreamer (gstreamer-0.10.24) (configure error)
! devel/gconf2 (gconf2-2.26.2_1) (configure error)
* devel/libgsf (libgsf-1.14.15_1)
* graphics/librsvg2 (librsvg2-2.26.0_2)
* multimedia/gstreamer-plugins (gstreamer-plugins-0.10.24,3)
* net-im/libnice (libnice-0.0.9)
* multimedia/gstreamer-plugins-good (gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.16,3)
* multimedia/gstreamer-plugins-theora (gstreamer-plugins-theora-0.10.24,3)
* multimedia/py-gstreamer (py26-gstreamer-0.10.16)
* multimedia/gstreamer-plugins-bad (gstreamer-plugins-bad-0.10.14,3)
* multimedia/gstreamer-plugins-xvid (gstreamer-plugins-xvid-0.10.14,3)
* multimedia/gstreamer-ffmpeg (gstreamer-ffmpeg-0.10.8)
* multimedia/gstreamer-plugins-dts (gstreamer-plugins-dts-0.10.14,3)
* x11-toolkits/gstreamer-plugins-pango (gstreamer-plugins-pango-0.10.24,3)
* devel/gstreamer-plugins-gconf (gstreamer-plugins-gconf-0.10.16,3)
* graphics/gstreamer-plugins-libpng (gstreamer-plugins-libpng-0.10.16,3)
* audio/gstreamer-plugins-ogg (gstreamer-plugins-ogg-0.10.24,3)
* audio/gstreamer-plugins-esound (gstreamer-plugins-esound-0.10.16,3)
* audio/gstreamer-plugins-vorbis (gstreamer-plugins-vorbis-0.10.24,3)
* devel/gstreamer-plugins-gio (gstreamer-plugins-gio-0.10.24,3)
* multimedia/gstreamer-plugins-ugly (gstreamer-plugins-ugly-0.10.12,3)
* multimedia/gstreamer-plugins-dvd (gstreamer-plugins-dvd-0.10.12_1,3)
* audio/gstreamer-plugins-mad (gstreamer-plugins-mad-0.10.12,3)
* audio/gstreamer-plugins-flac (gstreamer-plugins-flac-0.10.16,3)
* multimedia/gstreamer-plugins-mpeg2dec (gstreamer-plugins-mpeg2dec-0.10.12,3)
* audio/gstreamer-plugins-a52dec (gstreamer-plugins-a52dec-0.10.12,3)
* multimedia/gstreamer-plugins-core (gstreamer-plugins-core-0.10_10)
* audio/gstreamer-plugins-cdparanoia (gstreamer-plugins-cdparanoia-0.10.24_1,3)
* net-im/farsight2 (farsight2-0.0.15)
* multimedia/qt4-phonon-gst (qt4-phonon-gst-4.5.2)
* www/qt4-webkit (qt4-webkit-4.5.2)
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* devel/qt4-designer (qt4-designer-4.5.2)
* devel/qt4-linguist (qt4-linguist-4.5.2)
* emulators/virtualbox-ose (virtualbox-3.0.51.r22902_2)
* sysutils/hal (hal-0.5.11_26)
* x11/kdebase3 (kdebase-3.5.10_3)
* devel/gnome-vfs (gnome-vfs-2.24.1_1)
* x11/yakuake (yakuake-2.8.1_3)
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* x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati (xf86-video-ati-6.12.2_1)
* x11-drivers/xf86-video-r128 (xf86-video-r128-6.8.0_3)
* x11-drivers/xf86-video-openchrome (xf86-video-openchrome-0.2.903_2)
* x11/libgnome (libgnome-2.26.0_1)
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* sysutils/gstreamer-plugins-hal (gstreamer-plugins-hal-0.10.16,3)
* graphics/kdegraphics4 (kdegraphics-4.3.1)
* misc/kdeedu4 (kdeedu-4.3.1)
* x11-drivers/xf86-video-nv (xf86-video-nv-2.1.13_1)
* x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse (xf86-input-mouse-1.4.0_6)
* x11/kdelibs4-experimental (kdelibs-experimental-4.3.1)
* x11-drivers/xf86-video-radeonhd (xf86-video-radeonhd-1.2.5_2)
* x11-drivers/xf86-video-vesa (xf86-video-vesa-2.1.0_2)
* x11-drivers/xf86-video-mach64 (xf86-video-mach64-6.8.1)
* x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel (xf86-video-intel-2.7.1)
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* accessibility/kdeaccessibility4 (kdeaccessibility-4.3.1)
* deskutils/kdepim4 (kdepim-4.3.1_1)
* sysutils/kdeadmin4 (kdeadmin-4.3.1)
* x11/kdebase4-workspace (kdebase-workspace-4.3.1)
* x11-clocks/kdetoys4 (kdetoys-4.3.1)
* x11-themes/kdeartwork4 (kdeartwork-4.3.1)
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* textproc/gnome-doc-utils (gnome-doc-utils-0.16.1_1)
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* devel/libsoup (libsoup-2.26.3_2)
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* www/kdewebdev4 (kdewebdev-4.3.1)
* x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard (xf86-input-keyboard-1.3.2_2)
* x11-drivers/xorg-drivers (xorg-drivers-7.4_2)
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* x11/kdebase4 (kdebase-4.3.1_1)
* misc/kdeutils4 (kdeutils-4.3.1_1)
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* x11-toolkits/libgnomeui (libgnomeui-2.24.1_1)
* net/libgweather (libgweather-2.26.2.1_1)
* databases/evolution-data-server (evolution-data-server-2.26.3_1)
* deskutils/kdeplasma-addons (kdeplasma-addons-4.3.1)
* x11/kde4 (kde4-4.3.1)
* x11-toolkits/py-gnome2 (py26-gnome-2.26.1_1)
* x11/gnome-desktop (gnome-desktop-2.26.3_1)
* multimedia/cheese (cheese-2.26.3_1)
Right, time to run a backup before I FUBAR it real bad.
So, (yes it is about 2:30am for me right now, had a small (=98 or 99 for me normal is mid 96 or low 97 degree temp) fever last night, ate some food I should have not and spent about 45 minutes in the bathroom about an hour ago… not sitting…) I completed the installation following the guide I mentioned in my FreeBSD and VMWare post a week or two ago, but I was so intent on the guide I forgot to mark the main HDD slice as bootable, and then it was all down hill from there. the FreeBSD bootloader failed to locate a kernel and it was a real mess. I have done this in the past and never really figured out how to resolve it without reinstalling. The best I can tell you is what I just did…
- reboot from the install CD
- go into the post-configuration menu and select fdisk
- select the slice you installed root on “/”
- press “s” to make it bootable, should make a “A” appear next to it
- go into the label editor and go to each mount and press “m” and enter the mount point (make sure it is the same as the last time you ran setup, should be ”/” “/usr” “/var” ”/tmp” in that order if you want to have a happy and long life
- then go add some random package doesn’t matter what
- select commit, it will make the HDD partition changes and add the random package
- exit out and reboot
Now somehow I missed the network card config (probably because I was halfway through the install when my wife dragged me out to watch her drink green beer. granted I had a good time up until about 1am this morning in the bathroom. fyi I only had 1 beer, so the beer did not make me sick (it was not green!), it had to be the sandwich, which btw was good the first time…), so when I rebooted (and it did work after that) I had no IP addy. SO, back into the setup app
- type sysinstall
- go to configure ”post install configuration”
- networking
- interfaces “configure additional networking interfaces”
- answer the questions
ok, now I have everything up and running, followed a link in the guide I was following to “what to do first after installing FreeBSD” basically gives you the commands to enter to update the system and the ports tree.
So, the next step in the guide has you setup and run dbus, which promptly gave me an error about not having it’s user ID’s configured correctly (I blame my shotty installation technique… 
) fixable by going here, which by the way does say that the issue is from my nuked /etc/passwd file when I reran setup. This is bad, because I will be seeing more errors from this in the future… maybe I should nuke and restart before I get too far in?
I wish I did not have nearly everything I own stuffed in plastic tubs and sitting in a storage unit right now… I used to have a cheat sheet in a small ringed notedbook that had all these neat commands for FreeBSD written out, like how/when to use portupgrade and pkgdb. so, somehow my brain nearly functioned correctly and reminded me of this. SO I did a quick search from my laptop and found a page on pkgdb which also talks and is linked to a page on portupgrade…
I quickly ran pkgdb (if you’ve ever done this on a fresh install you’ll get the joke there, if not pop open virtual box install freebsd and follow allong to get a sense of what makes that funny) and got several issues resolved.
First I made sure to install all of these during the system install, as I know I will use them, but here is a list of the commands I have entered (as root) since my system booted for the first time to get it all setup. (in order, don’t know if it is the best order, but it is the order I did it!!)
freebsd-update fetch installportsnap fetch extractpkgdb -F (this one can take 20 seconds or 2 hours)cvsup /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile -h cvsup12.us.freebsd.org (this one is a good one to run over night, or when you have to run out to the store... no prompts and takes a couple of minutes)cd /var/dbtar cvfz var.db.pkg.[MMDDYYYY].tgz pkgcd ~ (get back to the root home directory)portupgrade -ra (this one takes a VERY long time and is directly affected by your internet speed; however you will frequently be prompted for options. If you know what it is and want it, put an "X" in the box, if not, keep to the defaults and avoid anything marked experimental!) Total run time 20 hours and it went unattended for up to 3.5 hours 3 times and for 30-50 mins twice. (each time it was sitting at a screen waiting for me when I got back to it)pkgdb -F (all good, finished in 5 seconds)cvsup /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile -h cvsup12.us.freebsd.org (went pretty quick this time, about 3 mins and DID make some more changes.)portupgrade -ra (finished in less than 10 minutes, but did update on some things and gave me an error "curl does not support both c-ares and IPv6 - disable one of them." apparently I checked to many boxes in the config screen!! This process moved me from 528 packages installed to 631)portupgrade -ra (finished in about 15 minutes, but did update on some things AGAIN!)portupgrade -ra (keep on running it till it doesn't update anything... this run I noticed some errors flying by, and several updates but it only took about 5 mins to complete, maybe there are more, but I am ready to move on... I'll run this every night before I go to bed for a week until it stops updating.)
So, now back to the guide, I think I was trying to start dbus... (I borrowed these lines from the forum post linked above to fix my problem with starting dbus)
cd /usr/ports/sysutils/policykit/make deinstallmake install cleancd /usr/ports/net/avahi-appmake deinstallmake install clean
After that I was able to start both dbus and hald with no errors and the next step of that process was to reboot, so I shall, and then I'll continue this on a new post...
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