From nobody Fri Sep 06 19:43:56 2024 X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4X0mrT3lMzz5Vqtk for ; Fri, 06 Sep 2024 19:44:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pete@nomadlogic.org) Received: from mail.nomadlogic.org (mail.nomadlogic.org [66.165.241.226]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4X0mrS46bLz4sZD for ; Fri, 6 Sep 2024 19:44:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pete@nomadlogic.org) Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; none DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=nomadlogic.org; s=04242021; t=1725651835; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=ZyEjwTsP4JC4o1aLpyR3B9yXwUM0kM+l2Hvf0qKFP4U=; b=ZaTD2sx2dKINePEtT2z/oiDE+MZ5eIpnW3bcAnOTH0mfgzxlD/AXhsxbDDQTGzS/S1joSC 9GGVg/X1r71UzZaNC6D/dxEXv9vjqmrF3VHBMAX66nXlqHPDP0mgnKlZ2xAb+zZCV7u4eG GnPJw8Vnind3DnKUdmxAqGRUgOzyl6M= Received: from [192.168.1.160] ( [47.154.20.141]) by mail.nomadlogic.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPSA id 804a40e8 (TLSv1.3:TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256:NO); Fri, 6 Sep 2024 19:43:55 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <3dcb6c12-a7fe-4afc-ba27-35e29dbc6376@nomadlogic.org> Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2024 12:43:56 -0700 List-Id: User questions List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-questions List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: building a 14.1 workstation To: Doug Denault , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: Content-Language: en-US From: Pete Wright In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Spamd-Bar: ---- X-Rspamd-Pre-Result: action=no action; module=replies; Message is reply to one we originated X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-4.00 / 15.00]; REPLY(-4.00)[]; ASN(0.00)[asn:29802, ipnet:66.165.240.0/22, country:US] X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4X0mrS46bLz4sZD On 9/6/24 12:31, Doug Denault wrote: > Not to bury the headline I can not build a 14.1 workstation and can > not believe I am the only one, but have seen nothing on this list. I have several freebsd 14.1 workstations including the one i'm composing this email on.  Hopefully we can break down the specific issues you are running into. > >    1. Installing from pkg what are you installing from pkg, specifically what "pkg install" command are you running?  Are you getting any errors?  Did you follow the instructions that are printed out after the pkgs are done installing.  For example, you may need to enable and start dbus. > This installs 384 packages with the following problems: >          * there is no chromium unfortunately chromium may not be available if you are following the latest pkg repo, but it should be available in the quarterly branch.  searching now i see chromium-128 available in the latest repo tho. > * firefox will not run, ending with an error loading a dynamic >            library this is odd, what is the specific error you are seeing? i wouldn't give up on using pkg's for everything just yet, they will save you tons of time and lots of headaches.  also there are lots of people running workstations on freebsd, so this isn't exactly uncharted territory. -pete -- Pete Wright pete@nomadlogic.org