i got 13.1 bhyve guest running with xrdp. was working great till i just ran pkg upgrade. now it says it can't start X server

any help debugging appreciated

What error message do you see?

./var/log/messages for example has xrdp-sesman error there is no x server active on display 10, a fatal error has occured attempting to start the window manager on display 10, aborting connection

fwiw i ran i3wm and rofi task launcher i think

OK. So why is there no X11 session?

then chrome browser

dunno

i have another bhyve that i haven't pkg upgrade yet and it still works as usual

polyex: Did you upgrade the host or the guest?

both

Variables, many!

host X is running fine

ya but this is a bhyve guest freebsd that i can xrdp in. it's weird, rdp is working but there's no x running

how do i even begin debugging this?

polyex: Look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log on the guest?

i looked for that but it didnt exist!!

fallback, look at guest dmesg?

nothing in dmesg jumps out

what if i get my xrdp configs together then share that?

maybe there's some new incompatibility

sucks to have shit just break tho and now i can't work

Yeah, that's a common pain point for me.

im gonna have to just lose the bookmark data and wipe vm, reinstall, hope fresh install works

polyex: Can you save it for forensics? Otherwise if it happens again you're just as hosed.

polyex: Also, it should be possible to fish out data if all that's messed up is the graphical display.

ya but if it happens on a fresh install i can batch my related configs up and share here but easier for you experts to dig into

uhm running freebsd / opnsense on a pi but cannot install sysbench? im assuming i need to change something in repo? 13.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE

Is there a binary package of "sysbench" for your system? Or, does the port not compile?

no binary it seems? pkg: No packages available to install matching 'sysbench' have been found in the repositories

/usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf only has: FreeBSD: { enabled: yes }

is that normal?

i also have no /user/ports dir

Ok. I see one -- pkg search -x sysbench -- for "amd64" system. Check the log|progress of package building for your system (portsfallout.com/fallout perhaps). Freshports lists the last packages available for a system: freshports.org/benchmarks/sysbench

Title: Fallout list - FreeBSD pkg-fallout

im on aarch64

According to FreshPorts link, "aarch64" lacks a package

is it possible to compile from source though?

Yes; that is why I had asked about the compilation of the port.

And yeah one should be able to compile outside of ports given various dependencies have been satisfied

what would i need to do? linux is my usual..

sysbenc h github site doesnt mention freebsd too

Install "git" (never used "gitup" myself); clone the ports tree; change to the port directory; "make build && install". See freshports.org/benchmarks/sysbench

Title: FreshPorts -- benchmarks/sysbench: Scriptable database and system performance benchmark

s/make build && install/make build && make install/

Sorry, I meant docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/ports/#ports-using link not the freshports one

Title: Chapter 4. Installing Applications: Packages and Ports | FreeBSD Documentation Portal

ok

The "default" (for some definition) path for the directory is: /usr/ports/benchmarks/sysbench. (Previous FreshPorts page lists the one-liner to compile & install the port)

portsnap: Command not found.

Install it then: pkg install ...

pkg: No packages available to install matching 'portsnap' have been found in the repositories

freebsd aarch64 sounds kinda gimped. but its the only way i can get opnsense on here

Ouch😩

Does "pkg update" do anyting?

yes

Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue... FreeBSD repository is up to date. Updating OPNsense repository catalogue... OPNsense repository is up to date. All repositories are up to date.

git install fine too btw

Ah, ok

rock and a hard place by the looks of it

Have you tried cloning the ports tree yet?

no

how

That is mentioned at the FreeBSD Handbook I listed earlier: docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/ports/#ports-using

Title: Chapter 4. Installing Applications: Packages and Ports | FreeBSD Documentation Portal

sorry yeah thats where it states to use 'portsnap fetch'

Scroll down to find git-clone

ooh yeah i just did *facepalm*

Try asking some other time to see if some "pkg" configuration could be tweaked for you to install packages

that page is all over the place: found it now: git clone git.FreeBSD.org/ports.git /usr/ports

Title: ports - FreeBSD ports tree

this is gonna take a while by the looks of it

Yes

all thos little files is bogging it down im guessing?

That & lots of history

1% now see you next week! lol

I have /usr/ports ~2.42 GB

3% now and oinly 45MB

🎲: Pay bills; do laundry; cook lunch|dinner; take a walk ...

yeah sounds like a job to do before going to bed..

when will those be fixed? pkg-status.freebsd.org/builds/defau…rterly:123amd64:5093dc0096b9:beefy2

Which package are you waiting for?

for 500 missing packages

which were removed from the repos due to webkit2-gtk3-2.34.6_3

and chromium obviously

it's been broken for more than a week

Are there PRs|progress trackers on FreeBSD BugXilla for the blocker packages?

s/BugXilla/Bugzilla/

Perhaps add your vote to bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=263833 ?

Title: 263833 – www/chromium: no package for 12.3-amd64-latest for over a month

is freebsd too poor to afford a normal buildfarm?

poudriere doesn't do distributed builds

you're waiting on one beefy machine to complete that particular combination, and that's assuming the underlying ports have even been fixed

the most sane decision is to flag those packages to be built one at the time, but freebsd is not about sane decisions, right?

🍿

alright, not going to really engage with this kind of poor attitude. good luck.

ahoi, great, now that I wanted to build my first program from ports it fails :-)

could someone check pipe-viewer in /multimedia and tell me what I could do there?

(or what was the command to post the output of the error to a pastebin?)

one info is: libthai-0.1.29 depends on shared library: libdatrie.so - not found

you don't have gnome installed?

hhfyu: nope

it worked a couple of days ago and I think there were some changes in libdatrie workd folder today

*work

install libdatrie ?

libthai usually comes as gtk dependency

hhfyu: you think it can be that easy?

yep, funny...now I have pipe-viewer

hhfyu: good job

it just didn't like the package from ports

well, I have powerd running but my cpu is a max freq...now downclocking...how can this be?

is it enabled in bios?

blackroot: what setting in bios would that be?

cpu stepping, cool'n'quiet, something like that. it can have a few different names depending on hardware

blackroot: gonna reboot and check...just a sec

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okay, it was something in my .xinitrc that kept the cpu freq up

Hi

I got some news

MPV sucks after the last update

sometimes ENTER doesn't start playing the next video in the queue

for example `mpv *`

It could have been that the --shuffle also had the current video at the end of the video (forgot to check for that)

But I am also pretty sure that the settings such as contrast and gamma were gone

is the camera works with the latest FreeBSD on Raspberry PI Zero W? Table says ????

psionic: Is the camera v4l2-compatile?

I my workplace uses StartTLS for both inbound and outbound mail; my email client only supports StartTLS outbound and SSL/TLS inbound, is there anything I could do on my external server to effectively act as an auth bridge, so I can use SSL/TLS with it and it can deal with works email system for me

inbound and outbound ? as a mta or mua ?

what a crap email client that is, change your client :D

stunnel?

i don't think stunnel would help in this case

psionic: agreed

This does sound like a case I dealt with using stunnel.

Hi. Did anyone answer to my MPV bug report? I have a unstable connection

PredatorONormies: I think not. Maybe post to freebsd-questions ahead of formalising a bug report.

oh

I came here as a bug report

I hate mailing lists

I hate e-mails

I hate 100 ways of communcation - none being perfect

is the rpi wifi support still as shit as that table shows it? :D

Both Enter and '>' are working for me in mpv.

Hi guys, I'm having problems running anope irc services on a FreeBSD 13.1, coredump occurs. But ONLY if anope is builded on FreeBSD 13.1. If I build anope on FreeBSD 13.0, copy the binaries and run on FreeBSD 13.1, it runs fine. I tested on a fresh install of FreeBSD 13.0 and FreeBSD 13.1. Maybe clang issue? Anyone tested anope on FreeBSD 13.1?

im getting bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=265675

Title: 265675 – Black screen after updating xorg-server

seems like latest big xorg update broke a lot of ppl's installs

polyex: Is this the VM issue, or a new issue?

vm/bhyve guest issue

the host xorg is working fine after upgrade... somehow

Ah, I'm glad it's a known thing then. That'll help.

IF that's the same issue. seems like it

xrdp-sesman is responsible for starting X. how can i see why it's failing? there's no /var/log/X... that's created

OK I FIGURED IT OUT AND I CANT FUCKING BELIEVE IT

ANYONE WANNA MEET UP FOR A TURD PARTY TO CELEBRATE??

polyex: What was it?

k lemme get it

in /usr/local/etc/xrdp/sesman.ini in [Xorg] section, commented param=Xorg out and replaced with param=/usr/local/libexec/Xorg. rebooted, works

i could freerdp into box, but it was all black. so i knew xrdp was working and the error about not starting xorg was the culprit

A bad path?

hrm

so i looked at sesman instead of xrdp

ya

But libexec shouldn't be in a path.

So your fix is probably right, and it makes me wonder how it worked before.

check out the new sesman.ini.sample it has a comment on it

polyex++

seen sesman.ini.sample? it says for FreeBSD (from 2022Q4) to use the path i tried

still cant believe i figured this out ffs. gotta go give money to homeless or smth

ty mason

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