From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 1 16:22:03 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC21716A474 for ; Fri, 1 Feb 2008 16:22:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net) Received: from snoogles.rachie.is-a-geek.net (rachie.is-a-geek.net [66.230.99.27]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F1BC13C4D5 for ; Fri, 1 Feb 2008 16:22:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by snoogles.rachie.is-a-geek.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 817031CC8B for ; Fri, 1 Feb 2008 07:22:00 -0900 (AKST) From: Mel To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 17:21:58 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <1201823233.15358.40.camel@Caffiend.org> In-Reply-To: <1201823233.15358.40.camel@Caffiend.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-6" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200802011721.58642.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> Subject: Re: CVSup update or upgrade X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 16:22:03 -0000 On Friday 01 February 2008 00:47:12 Allen wrote: > Now, this wouldn't work for some reason or another, but the system > seemed to be doing just fine. I did uname -a and sure enough I had > 6.3 Stable going. However, when typing kdm to load up that so I can > use a gui, it no longer loads, at all, it pops up for a split second to > just stop totally, and then gives me a message about the hostname. > > I thought it was odd, and XDM actually loads, but won't load X > itself as it too goes out with errors about hostname. So the hostname isn't set, the clue would be that machine presents itself as "amnesia". Check /etc/rc.conf so see if you set a hostname or if you use DHCP, check if the dhcp server gives you one. How this got lost in the upgrade, I don't know. mergemaster doesn't touch /etc/rc.conf, only /etc/defaults/rc.conf. > I've been looking on FreeBSD.org but I don't fnid anything about this, > but when did FreeBSD go from .tgz files to .tbz? I'm just wondering > what happened as I thought it was atypo at first and realized every > one of my books said .tbz and so did my screen heh. When libbz2 was brought into the base system, don't recall when exactly, somewhere around 5.0 I guess. tgz use gzip compression, tbz use bzip2 compression, which generally compresses better, but uses more CPU-time. FreeBSD can still read both though, it's just a change of default. -- Mel