hernan604 I'm checking your leaseweb.com suggestion. I like what I'm seeing. They even have VPS with FreeBSD. Cool.

hernan604: Do you have services with them? If so, how has been the service?

Yaazkal: no i dont

but i think its good

considering moving there

ok

just requested an small VPS, prices are insane, let's see performance

thanks for the information

Yaazkal: there is also tailormadeservers.com

i think its texas

but they are nice

but leaseweb is bigger

and i think better

I see

events.bsdnl.nl/early25/talk/WDHDZY starts in 10 minutes

I was just trying to `pkg ugrade` and it seems that audacity and evince have vanished from the repos. What's going on? Unresolved package fallout?

yeah, some bigger fallout, probably because of a bug in -CURRENT lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-ports/2025-April/007557.html

Btw. I had a bug in my sciteco port, which should consistently cause fallout due to some Poudriere peculiarities. I immediately submitted a patch, but it's still not merged. Anyway, I was surprised to see that binary packages actually still ended up in the repo. No idea how that happened.

ivy: were they streaming it live ?

mzar: yes

the stream was a bit ropey but the talk was interesting, worth a watch if they put up a recorded version

Posterdati: regarding your question regarding xfce: i have no idea. I use FreeBSD only via ssh without a window manager or desktop environment

guys i'm using cbsd and i have a vm set up.. trying to install windows via cbsd everything looks good but when i boot it goes to a uefi shell.. what does that even mean ?

sorry what is cbsd?

oxbar are you able to boot Windows? make sure you've set the ISO.

thanks tykling

I've updated freebsd to 14.2 on lenovo x230 and now my video is broken. Any idea how to fix that ?

so it seems i915kms is the problem

meandrain: rebuild or install i915kms for 14.2 -> blendit.bsd.cafe/post/821622

mzar: thank you !

kmods_quarterly_2 or kmods_latest_2

Do I need i915kms in order for x.org and a window manager to work ?

sure, you need it, otherwise it will be falling into vesa IIRC

well, I kind of "fix" the problem by using drm-515-kmod package instead of drm-61-kmod

antranigv: nope straight to uefi shell.. iso is mounted.. doesn’t mean it’s trying to read the hdd ?

oxbar maybe boot order is not correct? I usually use bhyve directly or vm-bhyve, not sure about cbsd. if you keep getting UEFI shell then ISO is not being booted.

meandrain: The other option I've used in the past is wiki.freebsd.org/GraphicsOld/SCFB but to get the most out of your graphics card you probably want drm-kmod, unless you're happy with the trade offs.

now I am curious guys what window managers you use in 2025 ?

I use i3

I watched this video: youtube.com/watch?v=wGXdqZv71CA but I am not sure I want to use a tiling window manager

maybe I'll try just out of curiosity. I am kind of lazy learning shortcuts

Some require more configuration than others, i3 doesn't require much

I am following this guide: docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/desktop to install gnome but there's no "gnome" or "gnome-lite" package

I'm a bit stumped with my server. FreeBSD 14.2, root on ZFS. The ZFS pool is fine, I booted a rescue system and was able to mount it. But the system doesn't fully boot - it initializes the devices, changes the network link states to up, gets to "Security policy loaded: MAC/ntpd (mac_ntpd)"... and then just stops. No login prompt, and no ssh access

either.

also, sorry for the rejoins. My connection is quite bad at the moment.

I have no idea what I am even looking for or what my problem is called, so any pointer is appreciated

Also, I suppose ssh does get initialized, because connection attempts don't time out, they get refused immediately

zilti: Make sure it's not flipping over to a serial console or somesuch.

And probably double check that it's getting the IP you want, and that there's no address contention... and that sshd is set to run.

mason: sshd is definitely set to run. I guess it also gets a proper network connection since it does rewrite the resov.conf. I do get the IP from my hoster's web interface, where it shows what IP has been given, so I guess I can rule that one out, too

zilti: Address conflict - if sshd is listening on the address it should be, is something else beating it to the punch? Can you ping? (Doesn't rule out address conflict, but it's a sort of sanity check.)

zilti: Another thought, tell it to start a pcap on boot and see if packets are getting to it.

mason: pinging works. I did turn off all services via the rescue system (I'm able to boot it with mfsBSD and mount the zpool there). That ended up working. So now I turn them on again one-by-one to see which one causes it.

zilti: You get a usable console now?

mason: yes, to my surprise I get both a login promot on the actual machine and ssh works too. :) Thanks for the help! Out of interest, how would I enable that pcap?

zilti: A cheap and easy way would be to run it out of /etc/rc.local

tcpdump

or I guess maybe tshark

Ah, tcpdump, ok

But it sounds like you don't strictly need it now.

Looks like my pf.conf config is at fault... which is weird, because I used that exact config before and it worked. And starting it while the system is running also works. Weird... I'm gonna re-do that config, there's not much in it anyways.

I had no idea a misconfigured PF could prevent the machine to boot all the way to the login tty

That's strange. At a guess it's bound up some process that held up the rest of boot.

I'm looking at examples, but getting no luck yet at changing an Nginx request for /images/foo.jpg so it instead delivers /images-alt/foo.jpg -> I'm trying location /images/foo.org { alias /images-alt/foo.jpg; } and still getting the old image. I can view /images-alt/foo.jpg using my browser.. so I know it's there.

is /images/foo.org just a typo here or in your config too?

checking...

I would like to have this in FreeBSD packages: github.com/tenacityteam/tenacity

nimaje: it was in the config too. fixed it. DIdn't fix the image goal though.