hi

running freeBSD on an rpi, I want to set up a network bridge. The rpi is connected to wifi, I want to connect a printer to the ethernet port, and bridge that to the wifi

ah found the relevant help article, should be ez

hm, if it were two ethernet ports you would create a bridge add the interfaces to it and move the network config to the bridge, but iirc wifi is special and has problems with something like that

is it not just another device?

network device

yourfate: that should be easily done with a iptable command and a change of some system env variable

what you are creating is an internal switch

(basically)?

Hello, all. In order to get a framebuffer console at my display's native resolution, I installed and loaded i915-kms, and then specified a larger font with loader.conf/screen.font . Now, since the latter setting takes affect early, before the boot menu, and the former late, mid-boot, my boot menu is displayed in an enormous font and is barely usable. What can be done about it? Setting screen.height and screen.width has not effect, nor does vbe_max_resolution ...

^ What happened? Libera is not accepting very long messages?

s/not/now/

IRC has always had limits on the msg length

Exactly what the limits are has varied with the different ircds and over time

it's a feature

I know that, but remember that the limit here on Libera was much stricter.

ant-x: I think that the limit was 400 characters some years ago, probably in times of Freenode. Your message seems to have 466 characters, so not that MUCH longer.

Hi again, so the problem came back, and after a forced reboot, nothing in /var/crash

nothing special in /var/log/messages

i don't know how to debug this

the system just shutdown without any reason

no kernel crash, no errors

no netdata alert

Arfrever, also, this limit depends on so many factors besides the IRCd.

It is (512 - overhead), where overhead depends on many variables.

oh, I just realized freeBSD doesn't support wifi on the rpi4 at all

the built in one

eoli3n: does that provider have a serial console too, or just vnc

eoli3n, my first thoughts would be to suspect something environmental at the VPS provider. . . power. . . hypervisor problems. . . over-subscription.

if it just hangs perhaps it is crashing on the serial console

oh, you could make sure that the loader us using the screen as the console, that might get you more info

Is that serial console? Or an emulated VGA console?

Maybe login with it and see what terminal it shows you on.

rtprio CrtxReavr there is no provider, the VM is running on my internet box (french freebox)

arm64

where the problem occurs, the vm is unreachable

its running my soju instance, so if you see me disconnected, it failed

i rebooted the router this afternoon, maybe it solved it

not familar with 'freebox'

isp router

free is a brand

well, the advice still stands, force the loader to use the screen as the console, it might help you

i'm sorry, i don't get your point

let me show you what i have

this is what i get : 0x0.st/PcoN.png

when the VM "crash", symptoms are : unreachable from the network, and that console seems frozen

i can see the message "vps is started" but the screen remains black

i understand

what do you mean then by "loader using the screen as the console" ?

i'm telling you to add `console=vidconsole` in /boot/loader.conf

and see if you get the crash on the screen next time

ok, let's try, thanks

should i reboot ?

when it's booted, is it vlc? can the font change?

vlc ? sorry i don't get the question

font change where when ?

never mind, i see (ttyu0), which is already serial

when it boot, i can see that it's using the console output, let's reboot to show you

back (it holds my irc bouncer)

hey maybe i can setup as a display, i can see a button "screen" on my vm manager

I need to change 5. at the boot screen right ?

no i take this all back, if you're already on the serial console

oh ok

there _should_ be some output when it crashes

i agree, that's really strange

i'm betting on the isp router which was crashing my VM, not the kernel crashing it

wait and see

i've not seen a mass market router that just happens to allow to run customer VMs

is v15.0 of freebsd Ready to install? I tried to update and had to do a recover becuase "libsys not found"

ddadestroija: freebsd-update or pkgbase?

freebsd update

it requires a little more care to do a major update

rtprio: what would you reccomend?

that worked for me, on one system

the system i yolo'd i believe i had the same libsys error

ok i'm trying to go from 14.3 to 15

the key bit is that you need to set the ABI and upgrade

rtprio: how do I set the ABI?

did you read the link?

it's right there

oh ok I see it there under status

what? no

i lined the exact section. env ABI= ...

yeah under major uprades I see it is an env var I need to chane, Thanks

still cant get sound to work

ugh

pcm shows up

sndstat looks fine

beep does nothing

writing data to /dev/dsp does nothing

boot a linux install and then play sound, works fine

Have you checked the volume?

vkarlsen: yes

vkarlsen: bpa.st/6RCA

see

Hello, all. Do I understand correctly that /etc/adduser.conf cannot be set to create for each user a new persoal group with the name of that user?

adduser man page says it can create groups, yet in interactive mode, if I set a custom main group, it fails with an error saying the group does not exist.

The only explicit reference to creating groups is in connexion with the -f option. No other way to cause adduser to create a group?

If I want to create user jane in persona group jane, is there a single-step process to do it, or shall I first create the group, and then the user?

I hope pw useradd can to it.

yes, the custom main group would need to exist already

but adduser should create $user and also the group named $user by default

rtprio, I mean that adduser does not create the group named $user.

When creating user ant, it fails with: group ant does not exist.

I did it with pw.

(pw useradd)

`pw useradd ant -g ant` didn't work?

rtprio, I wrote that pw works, but not adduser (unless I pre-create the group).

FatalNIX, you see me lazy rolling...

If you aren't lazy rolling then you aren't livin'!

polarian: have you tried to changue the sound unit with sysctl hw.snd.default_unit=<n>, I had no sound when first installed freebsd til i changued this to 1 in my case

aGaTHoS: nope

as in nope doesnt change anything

writing data to /dev/dsp1 or /dev/dsp2 ... also does not give you sound?

bpa.st/KYQA make release cant find pkgbase repo data...

aGaTHoS: nothing

re: make release failing

for some reason its looking for latest, while the version there is 15.0p2

oh I need to set osrelease prob

wait no

it defaults to uname, so it should be correct anyways

Hm. Do I need to do anything specific to upgrade base packages and such in 15.0 if I went with testing out pkgbase? The handbook isn't very clear on that. It talks about upgrading to 15.0 and such, but if I just want to check if there are updates, since freebsd-update is going to be replaced, what's the procedure in the meantime if any? I can't tell if pkg upgrade is good enough.