Comments on: 9-STABLE-20120505 Snapshot Available for Testing

By: dru

dru — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 16:25:12 +0000

The only thing else we can think of that could cause that is video powersaving. Does running this command fix it? “xset -dpms”

As for the “rrodney” repeating the first letter, this has been fixed for the next snapshot.

By: dru

dru — Tue, 29 May 2012 13:58:54 +0000

KDE is so flaky when it comes to setting the time… Hopefully the next version of KDE will sort out the dolphin and the time bugs.

By: dru

dru — Tue, 29 May 2012 13:55:57 +0000

freebsd.orgThanks for the update.

Regarding the gnustep port, are you referring to this one? http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/devel/gnustep/

According to Wikipedia, 1.22.0 is the latest version.

By: Dr. James R. Pannozzi

Dr. James R. Pannozzi — Thu, 24 May 2012 20:06:53 +0000

I just tried the Toshiba external USB drive after doing the aforementioned checkdsk /r repair which fixed the “free space marked as allocated” error and, unfortunately, PC-BSD 9.0 still refuses to allow access to the drive although it does recognize it. When opening it in Dolphin, the cursor jumps to the root directory. If one clicks on the Toshiba, the cursor again jumps immediately to the root directory.

One other odd bug, I can’t change my time – after entering the new time and giving the root password, I get an error message, “Error setting time zone”. But, whoops, wait a moment, after clicking OK it seems to have taken on the 2d try. Time now displaying correctly (UTC, New York).

OK that’s it for now, thanks!

By: Dr. James R. Pannozzi DOM LAc.

Dr. James R. Pannozzi DOM LAc. — Thu, 24 May 2012 10:19:48 +0000

On my XP box, I ran chkdsk /r on the external USB disk that PC-BSD 9.0 could not read.
It did find an error regarding empty space marked as allocated and fixed it, as shown below. Have not yet tried to mount the corrected USB external drive on PC-BSD yet, will get to that tommorow.

Also, did not get a chance to try the instructions on re-installing the HP P1006 laser jet printer. The instructions are confusing and am not sure if I should just delete the printer and start from scratch or whatever. Will have a go at that later too, when time permits.

Last but not least, I wish the gnustep install port maintainers would update the release and double check whether development/compile options work. I know PC-BSD is in the middle of a transition from GCC to CLANG, thus complicating things.

Other than the above everything else working cool!

Thanks!
J.

C:\>chkdsk /r e:
The type of the file system is NTFS.
Volume label is TOSHIBA EXT.

CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 5)…
File verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 5)…
Index verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 5)…
Security descriptor verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying file data (stage 4 of 5)…
File data verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying free space (stage 5 of 5)…
Free space verification is complete.
Correcting errors in the uppercase file.
CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated in the
master file table (MFT) bitmap.
Windows has made corrections to the file system.

312569175 KB total disk space.
188608628 KB in 660552 files.
204264 KB in 70038 indexes.
0 KB in bad sectors.
872267 KB in use by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the log file.
122884016 KB available on disk.

4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
78142293 total allocation units on disk.
30721004 allocation units available on disk.

C:\>

By: Jacob Daniels

Jacob Daniels — Wed, 23 May 2012 14:48:39 +0000

My video card was listed above, when I posted the other bugs
but I will post it again here, for your convenience:

EVGA (nvidia) 520GT

Complete system specs:
AMD Phenom2 1075T 3.0GHZ
8GB DDR3(PC1333) Patriot Ram
Hitachi Deskstar 80GB sata2
Motherboard: Asus M4A79XTD

By: Jacob Daniels

Jacob Daniels — Wed, 23 May 2012 14:44:22 +0000

As for the app problem being ACPI related I really don’t think so, as Firefox doesn’t have this issue I am not a developer so I would not know what the root of the issue could be

And no, I use an american (English) keyboard layout, left it at the default setting during install

Is there any other information that I could give you that could be of any help?

By: dru

dru — Wed, 23 May 2012 13:06:11 +0000

Regarding the freeze, does this happen with any other apps, e.g. could it be ACPI related? What graphics card is in this system?

Regarding the double char, are you using a different locale or keyboard layout? If so, did you set the locale or keyboard during install, after install, or both?

By: Jacob Daniels

Jacob Daniels — Wed, 23 May 2012 13:01:25 +0000

Got 2 New bugs to report:

1: Chrome and Mplayer freeze and become unusable if left inactive for a extended duration of time(1-3 hours approx. of leaving the program idle)
2: during the initial install of the testing snapshot, lets say I chose “rodney” as the username, but instead, I get two duplicate instances of the first char, for example it would be “rrodney” instead of “rodney” after the install is complete and your successfully launched the wm

This concludes my latest bug report
well that’s it for now!

Thanks!

By: Dr. James R. Pannozzi DOM, LAc.

Dr. James R. Pannozzi DOM, LAc. — Wed, 16 May 2012 15:43:23 +0000

I’ll give the foo2xqx a shot and report back.

Regarding the recalcitrant NTFS external drive, how does one find out if it is formatted as “dynamic” NTFS?

Thanks!
James