Is it normal for a FreeBSD desktop to crash every less than 24 hours? I'm running a custom build with Ryzen 3900x, 64 GB of RAM, an Nvidia RTX 2060, (not a gaming PC), and I run a simple desktop configuration with just X and a window manager on top. It just freezes and there's nothing in the logs afterward. Are there known compatibility issues with the hardware or the software I mentioned?

Currently on 14.1, but it has happened on 13, and 12, as well.

That is extremely not normal.

Thanks for the validation, that's what I thought. I am on the verge of replacing the hardware with an HPE Z840 with dual Xeon CPUs, ECC RAM, and a Quadro video card, just to avoid the crashes. This has not happened on my servers which all run FreeBSD nor on my Thinkpads. Maybe the combination of hardware I used for the custom build is causing problems.

Hi! I have a FreeBSD on a Thinkpad X201 Tablet, and want the wacom tablet to work. I have followed the WacomTablet page on the wiki, but xsetwacom(1) does not list the laptop's tablet. It uses a serial port, rather than USB and i think the port is not recognized.

I have added a new uart driver at /boot/device.hints as “hint.uart.2.at="isa" hint.uart.2.port="0x200" hint.uart.2.irq="5"”

But still the device is not listed.

Has anyone used freebsd on X201 tablet?

are there any caveats in memfd_create?

Hi! I am trying to update my FreeBSD jail. This site mentions that we have gitea 1.23.5: freshports.org/www/gitea. However, when I do pkg update, pkg upgrade, there is not update. What am I doing wrong?

The installed version is 1.23.3

Actually, if I try to install gitea in a new FreeBSD, it shows that there is not package called gitea. Is there any problem with the repositories?

Ronis_BR: curious, I see it in freshports freshports.org/www/gitea

Ronis_BR: what pkg repo are you using? see `pkg -vv | grep url`

Then we'll compare that to

morning

I made a bash script to customize any freeBSD VM available for DL on freebsd site with qemu :D gist.github.com/jul/1497d95e09ad08acf84c473029221000

any opinion on improvement except the shellcheck warnings I ignored ?

What's the status of Unicode 16 support? I see it was reverted back in October due to broken ctype generation. glibc has been updated and any machines using it have all manner of terminal corruption connecting to FreeBSD with mosh using tmux.

SFJulie1: why are you creating complex installer config scripts in your script to modify the image? why not create an installed system at the end?

nimaje, I had the linux-bsd dance to do because of qemu image size anyways

at that point the installerconfig was just a step away

how do I change freebsd's /etc/motd ? It seems it is replace after reboot. Older versions (10.x) for example did not had this "feature".

should I run chflags schg /etc/motd after editing /etc/motd ?

meandrain: mine says:

To change this login announcement, see motd(5).

and if I read that, it tells me a process about changing the /etc/motd.template file and restarting the motd service

mfisher: thank you !