Trond's place

Based on all the ruckus caused by KB5012170, if you are able, determine if BitLocker is active, and if so and if undesired, disable it on all drives before rebooting your computer running Microsoft Windows 10/11.

Commit 94af43935c4e2709577cb4e4723daf9d7cb91494 removed PORTEPOCH for math/py-kiwisolver.

If you find the error message “EOF found in spawn pipe” in /var/log/netdata/error.log, then you should probably delete every file in the /var/cache/netdata/dbengine directory.

ports-mgmt/pkg 1.18.1 vs security/base-audit 0.5 doesn’t seem to agree on who should be responsible for /usr/local/etc/periodic/security/405.pkg-base-audit.

I use Tig to browse local Git repositories, even bare mirrors.

Unless your software or your own scripts treat local and received ZFS properties as equal, you should probably set the values of the received properties again.

Compression is now on by default in recent OpenZFS.

OpenSSH marches on and disables old and insecure algorithms.

I use Synth to build my own packages.

For some unexplained reasons sysutils/tmux fails to be built by Synth on CURRENT when the UTF8PROC option is set.

Another month and another update for Microsoft .NET Framework (KB5008718).

I wanted to try out Windows 11 21H2 October update in VirtualBox but I came short when the installer thought I had unsupported (virtual) hardware.

Here’s a summary of my adventure upgrading PostgreSQL from 13.4 to 14.0 on my laptop running FreeBSD current.

I recently came across security/py-ssh-audit@py38.

Upgrading to ASUS ROG Strix X299-E GAMING II BIOS 1004 was almost successful.

When running pfSense as a guest in Citrix Hypervisor you must disable all offloading features on all external network interfaces, letting the guest handle everything.

Edit /etc/make.conf and /usr/local/etc/synth/LiveSystem-make.conf, changing DEFAULT_VERSIONS+=python=3.7 to DEFAULT_VERSIONS+=python=3.8, and DEFAULT_VERSIONS+=python3=3.7 to DEFAULT_VERSIONS+=python3=python3.8.

FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE is out, and one of the new features is W^X memory mapping policy for user processes.

After upgrading a test VM to 14.0-CURRENT this week, I was greeted with a large Terminus font.

Commit 0b7f1af804f06a285717b490bef80e24648adcbe for src/main and commit 6e1fe6d26ea2939656c8286ccbd105a89d3349a3 for src/stable/13 bumped the version number for gnu/lib/libdialog from 8 to 9.

The FreeBSD Project is slowly moving away from Subversion to Git.

Mailman 2.1 has served its purpose at work for several years.

A few things must be done before adding a Cisco Catalyst 2960X switch to a Cisco Catalyst 2960S switch stack.

The bootloader in recent stable/11 always gave me trouble booting the kernel due to having loader_color="YES" in my /boot/loader.conf.

r554306 fixed the problem, as users of Poudriere was equally affected. r554143 added flavours to devel/git, but did so in a way that defeats the purpose of running make config-conditional.

sources\install.wim in recent releases of Windows 10 has exceeded FAT32’s maximum filesize of 4 GiB.

I recently discovered Starship cross-shell prompt, available in the FreeBSD ports collections as shells/starship.

This server got a major upgrade at the end of June.

Just to remind myself that spaces are allowed before the equals sign.

Are you tired of desktop notifications in Google Chrome?

Update 2020-05-06 Python 2.7.18 was officially added to the ports collection in r534040.

Building devel/bitkeeper on stable/12 using ports-mgmt/synth isn’t straight forward as of r532246.

I’ve been experimenting with net/ntopng and net/geoipupdate.

Update 2020-03-30: r359426 fixed this issue.

The RV{32,64,128}{F,D,Q} extensions are great on their own, but I propose a set of new extensions to coexist with the current ones.

Somewhere between r357572 and r358062 something changed so dramatically in base/head that sysutils/htop didn’t display anything useful other than CPU and memory usage.

After upgrading Citrix Hypervisor 8.0.0 to 8.1.0, all ISO CIFS SR became inaccessible.

Last month I created two Windows 10 1909 images for a Dell Precision 5540, one image for “naked” Windows 10 including all drivers, and another image complete with all our usual software.

If you use synth from ports-mgmt/synth and switch from Python 3.6 to 3.7 after having updated the ports tree and after synth have updated its own flavour index, you might see strange error messages such as: Simply answer yes when synth asks you if it shou…

In my infinite (and possibly questionable) wisdom, I usually lock down various software to particular versions.

Today, I received a brand new Dell Precision 5530 running boot firmware 1.8.1 to be handed out to a colleague.

It’s the same story all over again.

synth(8) made the following complaint: The quick fix is: Someone else created PR 238734.

I ran two iperf3 tests between two hosts using Chelsio T6225-CR and Intel X710-DA4, respectively.

After upgrading this system to stable/12 r348672, my Chelsio T6225-CR NIC finally provided acceptable performance.

A student came by my office carrying his Lenovo ThinkPad T430s.

I installed Citrix XenServer 7.2 on a spare server, created a small VM running FreeBSD/amd64 head r347896, and updated the host all the way to XS 7.6.

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For some unknown reason, KB4474419 and KB4489878 failed to install automatically on Windows 7 SP1 x64 and Windows Server 2008 R2 x64, respectively.

Parallel mounting of ZFS filesystem was introduced in r344569 and is great for shortening the boot time.