Due to the upgrades my pkgdb.db file became unrecognizable halfway during execution of the portupgrade -a command so I had to do a rm /usr/ports/INDEX-6.db and a rm /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db and finally a portupgrade -a again to make everything right. On top of that my mousewheel seems to have ceased working again so that probably means …
Category Archives: FreeBSD
Portupgrade
Today I spent a few hours updating my installed ports for FreeBSD. Using the portupgrade command almost everything went as smooth as can be but it failed on the Xorg client and Xterm. This may have something to do with the fact that I had those two running during the upgrade… I’m nut sure but …
Apache
Mmm… I didn’t expect to have these troubles getting Apache 2.2.0 to run on FreeBSD. At first, I couldn’t even get it to build because it failed fetching an image (gif) file. So I updated the ports collection and luckely this did the trick. The rest of the install went fine but I couldn’t get …
FreeBSD
A day before FreeBSD 6.0 was installed we hooked up a new 320 GB Western Digital external USB hard drive. This puppy came FAT32 preformatted but I don’t like FAT so quickly re-formatted to NTFS (not thinking about the fact that a n*x OS might not really like this… However, I was able to mount …