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- Wed May 22, 2024 10:27 am
- Forum: General support
- Topic: Failed upgrade / bad install
- Replies: 0
- Views: 13
Failed upgrade / bad install
My rant with the update & subsequent reinstalls 1: root account disabled by default. enough said 2: no ability to set hostname when installing 3: no more ability to set UID:GID when installing when changed after first reboot. LightDM will not start MATE I have this system setup with olde freeBSD...
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 8:34 am
- Forum: General support
- Topic: Cannot access external hard drive
- Replies: 2
- Views: 247
Re: Cannot access external hard drive
What version of GhostBSD are you using?
What does "sudo dmesg" output after plugging the drive in?
What does "sudo dmesg" output after plugging the drive in?
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 6:47 am
- Forum: General Questions
- Topic: Basic Install Question
- Replies: 4
- Views: 497
Re: Basic Install Question
Have you tried booting it?
Is zfs, and may now show files
Is zfs, and may now show files
- Sun Mar 31, 2024 8:39 am
- Forum: General Hardware Support
- Topic: How to automount audio cds?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 627
Re: How to automount audio cds?
audio cd's are never mounted. You just point the player to the device
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 5:46 pm
- Forum: General support
- Topic: 24.01.1 Installer Xorg Cannot Start on Alder Lake N100
- Replies: 4
- Views: 807
Re: 24.01.1 Installer Xorg Cannot Start on Alder Lake N100
just an update. i grabbed nomBSD, which has a gui front end/live media.
i was able to get a gui started. having issues getting things configured, but it looks like it works. Maybe within an update or two, things will work for us
i was able to get a gui started. having issues getting things configured, but it looks like it works. Maybe within an update or two, things will work for us
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 1:50 pm
- Forum: General support
- Topic: 24.01.1 Installer Xorg Cannot Start on Alder Lake N100
- Replies: 4
- Views: 807
Re: 24.01.1 Installer Xorg Cannot Start on Alder Lake N100
I believe FreeBSD , at the oment, only supports this chipset in FreeBSD 15.
Maybe others with more knowledge will chime in
Maybe others with more knowledge will chime in
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 10:14 am
- Forum: Installation and Maintenance of software
- Topic: "failed to create drawable" error on multiple apps
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1832
Re: "failed to create drawable" error on multiple apps
I installed from packages - commands in the last paragraph above. I haven't installed anything from source, so no mixed install on the system. Weird, I installed the same and from the terminal for both calibre & ebook-viewer; [rodney@watton] calibre failed to authenticate magic 1 failed to load...
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 2:12 pm
- Forum: Installation and Maintenance of software
- Topic: "failed to create drawable" error on multiple apps
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1832
Re: "failed to create drawable" error on multiple apps
How did you install calibre?
pkg or source?
pkg or source?
- Tue Feb 27, 2024 8:57 pm
- Forum: General support
- Topic: Become root
- Replies: 7
- Views: 607
Re: Become root
do you mean logging in via the log in manager? not allowed.
if root has no password, as your user, do the following in a terminal;
sudo passwd root <enter>
enter the password.
to get into the root account, in a terminal type
su -
if root has no password, as your user, do the following in a terminal;
sudo passwd root <enter>
enter the password.
to get into the root account, in a terminal type
su -
- Tue Feb 27, 2024 1:27 pm
- Forum: General Questions
- Topic: rEFind reinstall/reset [solved]
- Replies: 4
- Views: 633
Re: rEFind reinstall/reset
one of your re-installs over wrote the boot/eif
quickest way, reinstall refind
quickest way, reinstall refind