Tootfinder

Plasma: high CPU usage whilst the screen is locked
<#FreeBSD

FreeBSD base package downgrades in response to a forced upgrade of all packages.
I might take a closer look at the weekend, if the typescript file for the session is available.
#FreeBSD #pkgbase

Tarides | Porting OBuilder to FreeBSD
#ocaml

Porting OBuilder to FreeBSD
Tarides successfully integrated FreeBSD support into OBuilder's architecture, enhancing OCaml CI for FreeBSD through tailored Fetcher and Sandbox modules.

I got most ARM64 machines working in QEMU. One exception:
FreeBSD-16.0-CURRENT-arm64-aarch64-zfs-20260113-2b60e628d3b1-283055.qcow
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It is telling that my second blog post today is a rewrite of my FreeBSD 15 install how-to. Once I go to the paid tier I'll start reshuffling and tagging. And since it's all not that important I've called mine The Infinite Nothing.
#freebsd

"Phrack article from 2002" o.O
lots of work to do in #FreeBSD 🧐
https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-escaping-containment-a-security-analysis-of-free…

@… some of what's written about pkgbase is unnecessarily alarmist.
In a nutshell: you can use it for RELEASE, STABLE, and CURRENT. No need to build from source for updates.
#FreeBSD

FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE-p3 on ARM64 in QEMU:
― SDDM, pictured, is barely usable.
After login to Plasma (X11), resolution is limited to 800 x 600.
How can I avoid the issue with SDDM?
Host: Kubuntu 25.10, Virtual Machine Manager with Ramfb for video. Guest: non-base packages from the latest repos.
Not reproducible with FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT on ARM64 in QEMU on the same host.
#FreeBSD

Any #FreeBSD sysadmins out there running #Bastille jails with multiple interfaces?
Or any sort of jail with multiple interfaces?
I was going to try out Bastille rather than old-fashioned manual "Thick" jail like the ones I’ve set up before because I've never done multiple interfac…

Documentation and/or implementation of 'network' subcommand unclear. · Issue #1440 · BastilleBSD/bastille
I am attempting to create a jail acting as a specialized proxy with access to multiple host vlan interfaces. The existing host config is: cloned_interfaces="lagg0 vlan0 vlan1 vlan2 lo1" ifconfig_la...

Honey, I shrunk the kernel!
@… #FreeBSD #pkgbase

I decided Xfce wasn't exciting enough for me. It didn't end well 😆 When you spend the last two hours setting up Niri on FreeBSD 15 only to find out in the end there's a bug open (originated on the FBSD side, since 25.11; it used to work on 14) 😭
At least I've got all deps and packages ready to go :mortyheh: Moving on, river it'll be!
#freebsd

Quick history of process isolation on unix
'
Somehow we ended up with an overengineered mess of leaky abstractions for cloud-based, vendor-locked infrastructure.
'
https://hypha.pub/back-to-freebsd-part-1

@… can you recall how the corruption occurred?
Post-recovery, I see the absence of free space before the ESP; and the change in free space after partition 4.
#FreeBSD

Nice bug resolution in bugzilla
Overcome by event.
#freebsd #bugzilla #ticketmanagement

@… also, for convenience, the overview page:
<https://www.freebsd.org/releases/14.4R/>

Updated the codeberg.org/thesaigoneer/freebsd-mangowc repo. Still a lot to do, but at least the most relevant things are there, including the mango configs itself 😆 Also the sw selection has been amended, including yazi and foot now.
cc @…
#freebsd

@… what's the systemd context?
#systemd #FreeBSD

FreeBSD desktop installer script test: quick start
#FreeBSD

Out with the old.
In with the new.
<#FreeBSD

@… the choice is not at all weird, it's explained in the information that the FreeBSD Foundation has made available.
#FreeBSD #KDE

Back to FreeBSD: Part 1 | Roman Zaiev, Hypha
#FreeBSD #Docker

Before this poll: were you aware of the search page?
#FreeBSD
Screenshot to follow.

@… thanks.
<https://bsdsec.net/tags/freebsd> nits:
― 'Security Advisories' is the wrong generic heading for an array that includes errata notices
― a qu…

@… video group membership is certainly not required to start X.
#FreeBSD #documentation

@… what's the breakage?
#libvirt #FreeBSD

@…
pkg info drm-66-kmod | grep -i -e repos -e version
pkg info drm-latest-kmod | grep -i -e repos -e version
Working from memory, I hope that's correct.
#FreeBSD

@… for ZFS (the default),
zfs mount -a
@…
#FreeBSD

@… I use OpenZFS-native encrypted ZFS for one of the file systems in a pool on a mobile hard disk drive on USB.
No GELI.
#FreeBSD #Linux

pkg upgrade -Fqy
For a single run, with conflicts, there may be multiple prompts for one more solver iteration.
I think this is negligible, not worth reporting as an issue. @… do you agree?
Thanks
#FreeBSD

freebsd-version: command not found
Is my bash syntax wrong?
#FreeBSD

@… try SDDM instead of GDM.
SDDM was fine with GNOME when I tested a few days ago.
#FreeBSD #SDDM

pkg upgrade
– fetched, then checked integrity.
Nothing more. The checked packages were not installed.
No error.
I guess, a coincidental lock on the package database was not reported as a lock.
pkg 2.5.1, FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT, aarch64.
#FreeBSD

pkgbase: all packages deleted without deleting FreeBSD.
pkg-unregister(8) is our friend.
pkg version 2.5.0 is something special.
A software reason to be jolly for a festive season.
Fa la la la la, la la, la, la.
#FreeBSD #pkg

@… confirmed:
– the bug is reproducible without the desktop script.
#FreeBSD #bug

@… season's greetings from Plasma on FreeBSD-CURRENT with pkgbase 🎄
#KDE #Plasma #FreeBSD

What I want, now, is a pkg command to list unregistered packages.
Oops, too late 🙃
#FreeBSD #pkg #MissionImpossible

@… I'm reassured by the top-ranking related comment in YouTube.
Yes, it's anime.
#FreeBSD #KDE

I wonder why fonts are wrong in Konsole in LXQt Desktop.
(Not wrong in Openbox or KDE Plasma.)
#FreeBSD #LXQt
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<https://redd.it/1rgx8ts> … thirty-six hours later, no-one has spotted the two deliberate mistakes.
Note to self: be genuinely careless more often. Much more. Especially at weekends, when no-one's paying attention 🙃

#FreeBSD #Linux #kernel #jails