Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2017 15:11:55 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Second attempt at FreeBSD-11.0-RELEASE-i386, Xorg, and Xfce graphical desktop Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1701191505060.2795@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <b1e37878-3e02-11ad-7e7f-bb942b6dbd04@holgerdanske.com> References: <18a5de5c-bc3a-c2e8-32c1-ea0a12d446ac@holgerdanske.com> <20170116230336.2cc22d94@riseup.net> <45c5ea44-e0b4-2698-da8e-707c507eb086@holgerdanske.com> <alpine.BSF.2.20.1701172256330.1046@wonkity.com> <20170118031855.48fbbe2c@riseup.net> <alpine.BSF.2.20.1701181757440.45317@wonkity.com> <2d4edb680db8c48f2be352b074f2b968@mhoenicka.de> <alpine.BSF.2.20.1701190750510.55707@wonkity.com> <7abf2904-dd77-3181-9878-05b9196a9082@holgerdanske.com> <alpine.BSF.2.20.1701191047030.2795@wonkity.com> <b1e37878-3e02-11ad-7e7f-bb942b6dbd04@holgerdanske.com>
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On Thu, 19 Jan 2017, David Christensen wrote: > On 01/19/17 09:53, Warren Block wrote: >> On Thu, 19 Jan 2017, David Christensen wrote: >> >>> 1. Erase system drive. >> >> Not necessary, but does no harm. > > I take images of my system drives with dd | gzip. Zeroing the drives saves > space. Saves space how? Note that this should not be used with SSDs, it will really mess up their idea of used blocks. dd is not the greatest backup method anyway, I have written a little about that: http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/backup.html > BTW -- is there a ZFS equivalent of "zerofree"? Sorry, don't know. Not sure of the usefulness of that, assuming it writes zeros to unused space. >>> 5. Based upon xorg package notes, create >>> /usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-fonts.conf: >>> >>> toor@freebsd:/root # cat /usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-fonts.conf >>> # Recommended by xorg package: >>> Section "Files" >>> FontPath "/usr/local/share/fonts/dejavu/" >>> EndSection >>> >>> Section "Module" >>> Load "freetype" >>> EndSection >> >> This probably needs updates, but also probably does no harm. > > What updates? How? I don't know, would have to investigate the Handbook fonts section to see what is outdated. > If the information is obsolete, the handbook should be updated. The Handbook is valid for more than one major branch, though. > 7. Install Xfce: > > toor@freebsd:/root # pkg install xfce > > Ignore message: > > To be able to shutdown or reboot your system, you'll have to add .rules > files in /usr/local/etc/polkit-1/rules.d directory. Which looks > like this (replace PUTYOURGROUPHERE by your group): > > polkit.addRule(function (action, subject) { > if ((action.id == "org.freedesktop.consolekit.system.restart" || > action.id == "org.freedesktop.consolekit.system.stop") > && subject.isInGroup("PUTYOURGROUPHERE")) { > return polkit.Result.YES; > } > }); > > For those who have working suspend/resume: > > polkit.addRule(function (action, subject) { > if (action.id == "org.freedesktop.consolekit.system.suspend" > && subject.isInGroup("PUTYOURGROUPHERE")) { > return polkit.Result.YES; > } > }); > > > The message should be removed from the package. All I can say is it has worked for me, on multiple machines and releases. >>> 9. Create D-Bus machine identifier: >>> >>> toor@freebsd:/root # dbus-uuidgen --ensure=/etc/machine-id >> >> I have never done this and do not have that file. > > I'm using FreeBSD-11.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick.img and packages. > > > Xfce would not start without it. Really? That seems odd. >>> 11. Edit startx to silence xauth warning about missing serverauth: >>> >>> toor@freebsd:/usr/local/bin # diff startx-20170111-1934-orig startx >>> 182c182 >>> < xauth -q -f "$xserverauthfile" << EOF >>> --- >>>> touch $xserverauthfile; xauth -q -f "$xserverauthfile" << EOF >> >> I have never done this, either. > > I prefer zero warnings and zero errors. Understood. I just don't recall seeing that. >>> 12. Add Xfce settings to silence xfce4-session warnings "No GPG agent >>> found" and "SSH authentication agent is already running": >> >> Never did this, either. Might be due to xfce4-session trying to >> automatically start services that are already running. That is >> configurable. > > I prefer zero warnings and zero errors. Pretty certain I've never seen that.
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