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#freebsd

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Justine Smithies
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Really strange but on the 5th attempt FreeBSD magically see's the NVME drive and so is currently installing. Thank you for boosting and or helping though.

#FreeBSD Family I require a little help if possible please ?
I have installed a new PCIe Gen4 NVMe M2 1Tb in my Dell Optiplex 3080 Tower i5-10500 along with 32Gb ram.
The BIOS sees both and I have secure boot turned off. But when I boot the FreeBSD installer it only ever sees the USB memory stick. Yet I can see the nvme in dev. I've tried several times but no joy. So I tried the GhostBSD live USB memory stick I have and it see's the drive as 1Tb.
What gives or am I missing ?
Please boost for a larger reach and thankyou.
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niconiconi

#FreeBSD build/pkg server is having a serious outage for about a week already... A ton of packages disappeared entirely from the repo because of failed build jobs. Not only making them uninstallable, running a regular system upgrade with pkg may delete existing versions from your system. "Wait and see" seems to be the only solution (other than building from port). ​:woozy_baa:​

octave disappeared from amd64 branch of FreeBSD.
SirDice: Yeah, I'd wait a little. There have been a bunch of build errors (in both quarterly and latest repos) that caused quite a few dependent ports to be skipped. As a consequence those packages disappeared from the repos.
Installed packages to be REMOVED: FreeCAD: 1.0.0_1 akonadi-calendar: 23.08.5 akonadi-import-wizard: 23.08.5_1 akonadi-notes: 23.08.5 akonadiconsole: 23.08.5_1 akregator: 23.08.5_1 android-tools: 31.0.3p2.0_28 atril-lite: 1.28.0_1 calendarsupport: 23.08.5 calibre: 7.23.0 eventviews: 23.08.5 filezilla: 3.68.1 grantlee-editor: 23.08.5_1 incidenceeditor: 23.08.5 kaddressbook: 23.08.5_1 kalarm: 23.08.5 kde-baseapps: 23.08.5_2 kde5: 5.27.11.23.08.5_2 kdepim: 23.08.5_2 kdepim-addons: 23.08.5_1 kdepim-runtime: 23.08.5_4 kdev-python: 23.08.5 kdevelop: 23.08.5_4 kmail: 23.08.5_1 kmail-account-wizard: 23.08.5_1 kmailtransport: 23.08.5 kontact: 23.08.5 kopete: 23.08.5_1 korganizer: 23.08.5 libgravatar: 23.08.5 libksieve: 23.08.5 mailcommon: 23.08.5_1 mailimporter: 23.08.5 mbox-importer: 23.08.5_1 messagelib: 23.08.5_1 okular: 23.08.5_4 opencascade: 7.8.1_5 pim-data-exporter: 23.08.5_1 pim-sieve-editor: 23.08.5 pimcommon: 23.08.5 plasma5-kde-cli-tools: 5.27.11 plasma5-kdeplasma-addons: 5.27.11 plasma5-khotkeys: 5.27.11 plasma5-kinfocenter: 5.27.11 plasma5-plasma: 5.27.11 plasma5-plasma-browser-integration: 5.27.11 plasm
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Jason Tubnor 🇦🇺
Memory management on #Linux is a bit borked. I tried to ingest 4GB of records from a file into a list (array) with #Python. Instead of the machine releasing RAM, it decided just to use swap and before I knew it, swapped was consumed and the Python process fell over.

I'll move the workload over to one of my #FreeBSD lab hosts tonight and re-run the script.
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One-and-only Allen Versfeld

Question for people who use #rkhunter on #FreeBSD:

Wait, first a prelude: The out-of-the-box defaults are so nice, just turn it on in periodical and you get daily reports that are actually meaningful and easy to understand.

Okay,the question: Given that it's still extremely verbose, pages and pages and pages of checks that have passed, what does an alert look like?

Do I have to scroll down all the way to read the exact same unchanging wall of text every day, on every host, for months and months, to have any hope of spotting the word "Failed" on line 2760 one day? Or does it make a bit of noise, put something in all caps at the top of the email, something that I'm likely to notice through the banner blindness?

#SysAdmin
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♡ Eva Winterschön ♡

💻 FreeBSD CUDA drm-61-kmod 💻

"Just going to test the current pkg driver, this will only take a second...", the old refrain goes. Surely, it will not punt away an hour or so of messing about in loader.conf on this EPYC system...

- Here are some notes to back-track a botched/crashing driver kernel panic situation.
- Standard stuff, nothing new over the years here with loader prompt.
- A few directives are specific to this system, though may provide a useful general reference.
- The server has an integrated GPU in addition to nvidia pcie, so a module blacklist for the "amdgpu" driver is necessary (EPYC 4564P).

Step 1: during boot-up, "exit to loader prompt"
Step 2: set/unset the values as needed at the loader prompt

unset nvidia_load
unset nvidia_modeset_load
unset hw.nvidiadrm.modeset
set module_blacklist=amdgpu,nvidia,nvidia_modeset
set machdep.hyperthreading_intr_allowed=0
set verbose_loading=YES
set boot_verbose=YES
set acpi_dsdt_load=YES
set audit_event_load=YES
kern.consmsgbuf_size=1048576
set loader_menu_title=waffenschwester
boot

Step 3: login to standard tty shell
Step 4: edit /boot/loader.conf (and maybe .local)
Step 5: edit /etc/rc.conf (and maybe .local)
Step 6: debug the vast output from kern.consmsgbuf logs

Screenshot of an IPMI terminal, showing the FreeBSD kernel loader prompt, with variables printed, and the discussed variables being set. After this stage, the boot process resumes.
#freebsd#nvidia#cuda
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r1w1s1
Normally in a humorous way, I'd say "Use Slackware!" 😄

But honestly, I really get what you mean. The BSD crowd tends to be more about sharing experiences and letting you explore, rather than pushing their own favorites. It's refreshing. On the Linux side, even saying "I'm trying something new" can start a 12-way distro war in the comments 😂

Still, if someone asks me about Linux distros, I will sneak in a "have you tried Slackware?"—because hey, tradition! 😉

#slackware #bsd #openbsd #freebsd
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lw

i'm looking for a new HBA for my FreeBSD file server, is the LSI SAS3416 a reasonable choice?

it seems to be supported by the mps(4) driver and does both SAS/SATA and PCIe, and has PCIe 3.1 for the host interface, so i'm assuming it's a reasonable upgrade for my current LSI SAS2008.

(i mostly just want more ports, but more performance and the ability to use NVMe disks would be nice too.)

#freebsd#zfs
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Alexander Deplov 🇩🇪

ChatGPT 4o, prompt:

Transform this vector image into a soft, 3D fluffy object. The shape is fully covered in fur, with hyperrealistic hair texture and soft shadows. The object is centered on a clean, light gray background and floats gently in space. The style is surreal, tactile, and modern, evoking a sense of comfort and playfulness. Studio lighting, high-resolution render. Keep colors as on the icon. Keep image colors.

#FreeBSD #beastie
#FreeBSD#beastie
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Justine Smithies
You know what I really like about the #BSD community ? Earlier I posted about maybe trying #OpenBSD for my desktop instead of my current #FreeBSD and nobody said "No" use the other. If I'd said that about a #Linux distro I'd have had folk from all corners shouting use this distro or that. The BSD community chime in when you ask for help or when they see a way that could be better for you. I'm probably going to sent to Coventry for saying this but ah well bite me. Free speech and all. 🤣
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