From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 6 05:00:13 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F85716A41F for ; Thu, 6 Oct 2005 05:00:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dfarmour@myrealbox.com) Received: from pd2mo2so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 326AB43D48 for ; Thu, 6 Oct 2005 05:00:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dfarmour@myrealbox.com) Received: from pd2mr5so.prod.shaw.ca (pd2mr5so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.8]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0INX00J4Z9W98T30@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 05 Oct 2005 23:00:09 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml10so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.80]) by pd2mr5so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0INX00IP69W9SZI0@pd2mr5so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 05 Oct 2005 23:00:09 -0600 (MDT) Received: from s0106000d87ae2db6.gv.shawcable.net (S0106000d87ae2db6.gv.shawcable.net [24.108.158.228]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.18 (built Jul 28 2003)) with ESMTP id <0INX00GCX9W9B2@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 05 Oct 2005 23:00:09 -0600 (MDT) Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 22:00:43 -0700 From: David Armour To: Greg Barniskis , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <200510052200.44335.dfarmour@myrealbox.com> Organization: dfarmour.org MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 Cc: Subject: Re: NEWBIE: how-to for feeding file to gnomealyzer.sh? 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: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 05:00:13 -0000 hello greg, thank you for your reply. > > i seem to recall a perl something or other flashing by on one of > > those root terminal screens. how does one preserve the > > information on those screensful? > man script > Use script to capture your entire upgrade process for analysis. Look > not only at the end where things totally crap out, but possibly much > earlier where things may start to fail in a non-fatal way (esp. if i'd forgotten the script trick. too far back in the memory banks i guess. > Sorry for not responding earlier... an unusual confluence of the > stars allowed me to take an actual vacation that involved no sounds like it must've been pretty good. > computers other than a GPS locator. Perhaps you've solved this by > now, but if not: i fed the file to the gnomelogalyzer script and it basically told me that it couldn't help. (!) subsequently, i've seen messages suggesting that all i needed was linuxpluginwrapper and one other port (the name of which eludes me at the moment) installed. i've made sure they're installed, but as it turns out, i haven't needed the plugins at any of the sites i've visited. regards