So... here was I preparing to end it for tonight. Locked the screen and all of a sudden - black screen with a message "The screen locker is broken and unlocking is not possible anymore. In order to unlock it, switch to a virtual terminal (e.g. Ctrl+Alt+F2), log in as root and execute the command: # ck-unlock-session <session-name>".. Is that a

remnant of an old KDE bug someplace? Had to ssh-in and restart sddm to fix it..

How are we lagging so bad at such low load averages‽

AmyMalik: ?

freebsd is fairly responsive even under heavy load

what is lagging?

disregard, crest

i am maybe a little strange

Hi guys, so, i have /dev/nda0p3 with a (new) BSD install... and /dev/nda1p4 also with a (older) BSD install. I mounted the older one in /mnt/4tb however im not able to see /etc dir... i can see /home /tmp /usr/ /var but not /etc

I think they are under those zroot4tb/ROOT/* snapshots -- termbin.com/otdz

how can i access those /etc/ files ?

good suggestions on a VPS provider for FreeBSD? my old one still runs on Linode, but I'm worried that akamai or whoever will break it at some point

aws

hetzner

hetzner supports freebsd? dang

thats news to me

mmlj4, tilaa works gret

great

but honestly any decent VPS provider will do. just ask them to mount a custom ISO - never had a problem.

+1 for Tilaa

DigitalOcean works well too, although they don't officially support it

kevans: dacav: sorry, my bad, i thought the original question was "why isn't dma setgid mail?" so i assumed it wasn't without checking, but in hindsight i think it must be setgid mail to allow it to deliver local mail

so i think we should just make dma.conf root:mail 0640

ivy: +1

once i have finished moving 10,000 manpages to another package i'll have a look at that

What should I check if I am getting ~75MiB/s read, ~50MiB/s writes to a target LUN via ctld that is setup as a ramdisk? My network is gigabit, and I have confirmed full bandwidth utilization ~950MB/s down/uploads between the initiator and target machines.

Sorry the network bandwidth is Mb/s not MB.

As far as what I'm using on the iscsi initiator side, its fio, bs=64k, io depth=32, sequential read.

vmstat?

TommyC: you are asking what vmstat gives while the speedtest is running?

Well you asked what you shoudl check so vmstat was my initial recommendation.

ah ok got it

any specific args I should run it with?

if ramdisk means tmpfs, the first thing i'd check is putting the backing store on a real disk to rule out weird vm issues

I've almost always just ran vmstat as is with perfectly fine results.

ivy: my first test was with a zfs zvol (backed by spinning disks), then with a file, then ramdisk, all give the same result essentially. My zvol has very high reads near ~1.2GiB/s, writes ~500Mib/s.

but I'm just testing with ramdisk now for a bit simpler setup

Hi! guys, im trying to move from disk0(old freebsd install) to disk1(new freebsd install)... both disks are geli...

however, when i boot, geli asks for the password for the disk1(new install).. but it also asks for the password for the old disk0 install

if i dont enter the password for the second disk, it says it will reboot

how can i fix this ?

both disks are ZFS with geli

zfs is confusing lol

im not a zfs expert.. but its always confusing because its completely different from traditional FS

pretty sure that has to do with loader or geli and would happen similarly if there was ufs inside geli, but no idea how to get loader to only decrypt the disk you want to boot from

nimaje: yeah.. that sucks

i think i will have to create a new fs

didnt want to do that

but... i dont understand