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It&#x27;s not a great photo but you can clearly see I&#x27;ve modified my <a href="/tags/thinkpad/" rel="tag">#ThinkPad</a> boot logo for <a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#FreeBSD</a> . <img src="https://neodb.social/media/emoji/snac.smithies.me.uk/freebsd.png" class="emoji" alt=":freebsd:" title=":freebsd:"><br>

RESOLVED - See last toot in thread<br><br>I&#x27;ve got a weird issue on my <a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#FreeBSD</a> ThinkPad. Since setting up lagg yesterday which worked fine. I powered off last night and then switched it on this morning. I noticed that I had no network access on either the re1 interface or wlan0. I powered off and on and it worked. I have since discovered that if it doesn&#x27;t work if I just doas service netif restart it starts to work again.<br><br>This is my lagg setup in /etc/rc.conf<br><br><p># WiFi<br>wlans_iwlwifi0=&quot;wlan0&quot;<br>ifconfig_wlan0=&quot;WPA SYNCDHCP&quot;<br>cloned_interfaces=&quot;lagg0&quot;<br>ifconfig_lagg0=&quot;up laggproto failover laggport re1 laggport wlan0 DHCP&quot;<br></p>This is the output of ifconfig when it&#x27;s working:<br><br><p>re0: flags=8802&lt;BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST&gt; metric 0 mtu 1500<br> options=8209b&lt;RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,WOL_MAGIC,LINKSTATE&gt;<br> ether 8c:8c:aa:bd:bb:f0<br> media: Ethernet autoselect (none)<br> status: no carrier<br> nd6 options=29&lt;PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL&gt;<br>re1: flags=1008843&lt;UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,LOWER_UP&gt; metric 0 mtu 1500<br> options=80088&lt;VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWCSUM,LINKSTATE&gt;<br> ether 8c:8c:aa:bd:bb:ef<br> inet 192.168.0.194 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255<br> media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT &lt;full-duplex&gt;)<br> status: active<br> nd6 options=29&lt;PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL&gt;<br>lo0: flags=1008049&lt;UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,LOWER_UP&gt; metric 0 mtu 16384<br> options=680003&lt;RXCSUM,TXCSUM,LINKSTATE,RXCSUM_IPV6,TXCSUM_IPV6&gt;<br> inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000<br> inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128<br> inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3<br> groups: lo<br> nd6 options=21&lt;PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL&gt;<br>wlan0: flags=1008843&lt;UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,LOWER_UP&gt; metric 0 mtu 1500<br> options=0<br> ether 8c:8c:aa:bd:bb:ef<br> hwaddr 70:9c:d1:af:ad:93<br> inet 192.168.0.194 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255<br> groups: wlan<br> ssid Smithies channel 40 (5200 MHz 11a vht/80-) bssid f0:9f:c2:ab:8d:c3<br> regdomain FCC country US authmode WPA2/802.11i privacy ON<br> deftxkey UNDEF AES-CCM 2:128-bit AES-CCM ucast:128-bit txpower 17<br> bmiss 7 mcastrate 6 mgmtrate 6 scanvalid 60 ampdulimit 64k<br> ampdudensity 8 -amsdutx amsdurx shortgi -ldpctx ldpcrx -uapsd vht<br> vht40 vht80 vht160 -vht80p80 wme roaming MANUAL<br> parent interface: iwlwifi0<br> media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet VHT mode 11ac<br> status: associated<br> nd6 options=29&lt;PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL&gt;<br>lagg0: flags=1008843&lt;UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,LOWER_UP&gt; metric 0 mtu 1500<br> options=0<br> ether 8c:8c:aa:bd:bb:ef<br> hwaddr 00:00:00:00:00:00<br> inet 192.168.0.194 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255<br> laggproto failover lagghash l2,l3,l4<br> laggport: re1 flags=5&lt;MASTER,ACTIVE&gt;<br> laggport: wlan0 flags=0&lt;&gt;<br> groups: lagg<br> media: Ethernet autoselect<br> status: active<br> nd6 options=29&lt;PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL&gt;<br></p>This is the output when not working on first boot:<br><br><p>re0: flags=8802&lt;BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST&gt; metric 0 mtu 1500<br> options=8209b&lt;RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,WOL_MAGIC,LINKSTATE&gt;<br> ether 8c:8c:aa:bd:bb:f0<br> media: Ethernet autoselect (none)<br> status: no carrier<br> nd6 options=29&lt;PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL&gt;<br>re1: flags=1008843&lt;UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,LOWER_UP&gt; metric 0 mtu 1500<br> options=80088&lt;VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWCSUM,LINKSTATE&gt;<br> ether 8c:8c:aa:bd:bb:ef<br> inet 192.168.0.194 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255<br> media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT &lt;full-duplex&gt;)<br> status: active<br> nd6 options=29&lt;PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL&gt;<br>lo0: flags=1008049&lt;UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,LOWER_UP&gt; metric 0 mtu 16384<br> options=680003&lt;RXCSUM,TXCSUM,LINKSTATE,RXCSUM_IPV6,TXCSUM_IPV6&gt;<br> inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000<br> inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128<br> inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3<br> groups: lo<br> nd6 options=21&lt;PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL&gt;<br>wlan0: flags=1008843&lt;UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,LOWER_UP&gt; metric 0 mtu 1500<br> options=0<br> ether 8c:8c:aa:bd:bb:ef<br> hwaddr 70:9c:d1:af:ad:93<br> inet 192.168.0.194 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255<br> groups: wlan<br> ssid Smithies channel 40 (5200 MHz 11a vht/80-) bssid f0:9f:c2:ab:8d:c3<br> regdomain FCC country US authmode WPA2/802.11i privacy ON<br> deftxkey UNDEF AES-CCM 2:128-bit AES-CCM ucast:128-bit txpower 17<br> bmiss 7 mcastrate 6 mgmtrate 6 scanvalid 60 ampdulimit 64k<br> ampdudensity 8 -amsdutx amsdurx shortgi -ldpctx ldpcrx -uapsd vht<br> vht40 vht80 vht160 -vht80p80 wme roaming MANUAL<br> parent interface: iwlwifi0<br> media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet VHT mode 11ac<br> status: associated<br> nd6 options=29&lt;PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL&gt;<br>lagg0: flags=1008843&lt;UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,LOWER_UP&gt; metric 0 mtu 1500<br> options=0<br> ether 8c:8c:aa:bd:bb:ef<br> hwaddr 00:00:00:00:00:00<br> inet 192.168.0.194 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255<br> laggproto failover lagghash l2,l3,l4<br> laggport: re1 flags=5&lt;MASTER,ACTIVE&gt;<br> laggport: wlan0 flags=0&lt;&gt;<br> groups: lagg<br> media: Ethernet autoselect<br> status: active<br> nd6 options=29&lt;PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL&gt;<br></p>I should note that running doas service netif restart once it&#x27;s working makes it fail again.<br><br>Any ideas ??<br>

<p>Running Mastodon on FreeBSD? Stop using wrapper scripts that break service status.</p><p>I&#x27;ve refactored the init scripts for Sidekiq, Puma, and Streaming to be fully production-grade: </p><p>- Clean privilege dropping (no su wrappers)<br>- Native signal handling for log rotation <br>- Correct PID tracking &amp; status reporting.</p><p>I published the scripts and the reasoning behind them in my Codeberg gists:</p><p><a href="https://codeberg.org/Larvitz/gists/src/branch/main/2026/20250115-FreeBSD_Mastodon_rc.d.md" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="codeberg.org/Larvitz/gists/src/branch/main/2026/20250115-FreeBSD_Mastodon_rc.d.md"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">codeberg.org/Larvitz/gists/src</span><span class="invisible">/branch/main/2026/20250115-FreeBSD_Mastodon_rc.d.md</span></a></p><p>I use those to run a Mastodon instance and they&#x27;re working great so far!</p><p><img src="https://neodb.social/media/emoji/bsd.cafe/freebsd_logo.png" class="emoji" alt=":freebsd_logo:" title=":freebsd_logo:"> ❤️ 🦣 </p><p><a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#FreeBSD</a> <a href="/tags/mastodon/" rel="tag">#Mastodon</a> <a href="/tags/selfhosting/" rel="tag">#SelfHosting</a> <a href="/tags/mastoadmin/" rel="tag">#mastoadmin</a> <a href="/tags/runbsd/" rel="tag">#runbsd</a> <a href="/tags/opensource/" rel="tag">#OpenSource</a></p>

<p>Marooned / Verschollen im Weltall</p><p><a href="/tags/moodoftheday/" rel="tag">#moodoftheday</a> <a href="/tags/bsd/" rel="tag">#BSD</a> <a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#FreeBSD</a> <a href="/tags/plasma/" rel="tag">#Plasma</a> <a href="/tags/kde/" rel="tag">#KDE</a><br><a href="/tags/unix/" rel="tag">#Unix</a> <a href="/tags/desktop/" rel="tag">#Desktop</a> <a href="/tags/screenshot/" rel="tag">#Screenshot</a></p>

<a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#FreeBSD</a> 15.0 folk. Why would me putting the font Helvetica Ultra Compressed.otf in ~/.local/share/fonts/ make qutebrowser and firefox use that font only on Github pages ?? I wasn&#x27;t wanting to use that font for the browser it was just for my ThinkPad custom bios logo via Gimp. If I move that font out of it&#x27;s location and re run fc-cache -fv then everything is fine ?????<br><br>

<p>Dang near every jail on my <a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#freebsd</a> server needs either pgsql or mariadb.</p><p>I could stop running databases everywhere by building a database jail, eliminating many small points of small failures by implementing a single point of complete failure.</p><p>Which is better? All I know is whatever choice wins, I will lose. <a href="/tags/sysadmin/" rel="tag">#sysadmin</a></p>

<p>I&#x27;ve been running one Linux distro or another (mostly Debian) for 30 years, so how hard can it be to get a FreeBSD 15.0 ISO or memstick.img on a USB thumb drive for installation? Apparently, for me, very hard. 🤣<br><br>I&#x27;ll figure this out. This is quite the humbling experience. 👍️<br><br>UPDATE: Using the dd command worked. I now have the FreeBSD ISO on the thumb drive. Should have tried this earlier.<br><br>Yet another UPDATE. ISO is on the thumb drive but still won&#x27;t boot on the X1 Carbon. I have an older laptop I can try this on. The Boot Menu recognizes the thumb drive but won&#x27;t boot.<br><br>One last UPDATE. Disabling secure boot resolved the issue. Thanks to everyone who chimed in with support. I really appreciate it!<br><br><a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#FreeBSD</a> <a href="/tags/bsd/" rel="tag">#BSD</a></p>

Having been using <a href="/tags/debian/" rel="tag">#Debian</a> as daily desktop operating system but I never thought about this. Remotely remind me of the <a href="/tags/pkgbase/" rel="tag">#pkgbase</a> arguement in <a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#FreeBSD</a><br><br><a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/1019898/" rel="nofollow">Debian&#x27;s AWKward essential set</a><br><br><a href="/tags/linux/" rel="tag">#Linux</a> <a href="/tags/unix/" rel="tag">#Unix</a> <a href="/tags/bsd/" rel="tag">#BSD</a> <a href="/tags/awk/" rel="tag">#AWK</a> <a href="/tags/foss/" rel="tag">#FOSS</a><br>

Right I&#x27;m not interested in starting a flame war but I am interested to see how many folk in 2026 use <a href="/tags/wayland/" rel="tag">#Wayland</a> or <a href="/tags/wayback/" rel="tag">#Wayback</a> and how many use <a href="/tags/x11/" rel="tag">#X11</a> or even <a href="/tags/xlibre/" rel="tag">#Xlibre</a> . Feel free if you wish to say what OS/Distribution you use and which window manager or desktop environment below. <a href="/tags/linux/" rel="tag">#Linux</a> <a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#FreeBSD</a> <a href="/tags/openbsd/" rel="tag">#OpenBSD</a> <a href="/tags/netbsd/" rel="tag">#NetBSD</a><br>Please boost and thanks in advance.<br> <div class="poll"> <h3 style="display: none;">Options: <small>(choose one)</small></h3> <ul> <li> <label class="poll-option"> <input style="display:none" name="vote-options" type="radio" value="0"> <span class="poll-number" title="280 votes">61%</span> <span class="poll-option-text">Wayland</span> </label> </li> <li> <label class="poll-option"> <input style="display:none" name="vote-options" type="radio" value="0"> <span class="poll-number" title="2 votes">0%</span> <span class="poll-option-text">Wayback</span> </label> </li> <li> <label class="poll-option"> <input style="display:none" name="vote-options" type="radio" value="0"> <span class="poll-number" title="167 votes">37%</span> <span class="poll-option-text">X11</span> </label> </li> <li> <label class="poll-option"> <input style="display:none" name="vote-options" type="radio" value="0"> <span class="poll-number" title="7 votes">2%</span> <span class="poll-option-text">Xlibre</span> </label> </li> </ul> <div class="poll-footer"> <span class="vote-total">456 votes</span> &mdash; <span class="vote-end">Ended 78d ago</span> <span class="todo">Polls are currently display only</span> </div> </div>

Right since I&#x27;m back on <a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#FreeBSD</a> and <a href="/tags/mangowc/" rel="tag">#MangoWC</a> ( <a href="/tags/wayland/" rel="tag">#Wayland</a> ) I think I&#x27;m going to swap back from <a href="/tags/rofi/" rel="tag">#Rofi</a> to <a href="/tags/fuzzel/" rel="tag">#Fuzzel</a> .<br>

<p>Attention to meta packages alone is insufficient to prevent removal of the kernel. </p><p>In the attached screenshot, there was no force.</p><p><a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#FreeBSD</a> <a href="/tags/pkgbase/" rel="tag">#pkgbase</a> <a href="/tags/bug/" rel="tag">#bug</a></p>

<p>With a FreeBSD pkg repository configuration file set to use quarterly for the one and only repo: </p><p>― why is latest (not quarterly) used for bootstrapping?</p><p><a href="https://gist.github.com/grahamperrin/1a36d21e9c6d3bc363cee7ecfe779595#file-2025-10-27-pkg-txt-L119-L126" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="gist.github.com/grahamperrin/1a36d21e9c6d3bc363cee7ecfe779595#file-2025-10-27-pkg-txt-L119-L126"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">gist.github.com/grahamperrin/1</span><span class="invisible">a36d21e9c6d3bc363cee7ecfe779595#file-2025-10-27-pkg-txt-L119-L126</span></a></p><p>Whilst FreeBSD 14.2-RELEASE is end of life, I can&#x27;t imagine it being relevant in this context.</p><p><a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#FreeBSD</a> <a href="/tags/pkg/" rel="tag">#pkg</a></p>

<p>111</p><p>ayuda | aide | Hilfe | aiuto | ajuda | hulp | hjälp | hjælp | hjelp | apu | pomoc | помощь | βοήθεια | yardım | مساعدة | עזרה | मदद | 帮助 | 助け | 도움</p><p>recently modified &lt;<a href="https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?keywords=install&amp;list_id=897815&amp;order=changeddate%20DESC%2Cbug_id&amp;query_format=advanced&amp;resolution=---" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?keywords=install&amp;list_id=897815&amp;order=changeddate%20DESC%2Cbug_id&amp;query_format=advanced&amp;resolution=---"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/bugl</span><span class="invisible">ist.cgi?keywords=install&amp;list_id=897815&amp;order=changeddate%20DESC%2Cbug_id&amp;query_format=advanced&amp;resolution=---</span></a>&gt;</p><p>― or chronological &lt;<a href="https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?keywords=install&amp;list_id=897815&amp;order=bug_id&amp;query_format=advanced&amp;resolution=---" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?keywords=install&amp;list_id=897815&amp;order=bug_id&amp;query_format=advanced&amp;resolution=---"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/bugl</span><span class="invisible">ist.cgi?keywords=install&amp;list_id=897815&amp;order=bug_id&amp;query_format=advanced&amp;resolution=---</span></a>&gt;</p><p>― the clock&#x27;s ticking …</p><p>&lt;<a href="http://archive.today/2025.10.25-015845/https://www.freebsd.org/releases/15.0R/schedule/#62%25" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="archive.today/2025.10.25-015845/https://www.freebsd.org/releases/15.0R/schedule/#62%25"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.today/2025.10.25-01584</span><span class="invisible">5/https://www.freebsd.org/releases/15.0R/schedule/#62%25</span></a>&gt; | &lt;<a href="https://www.freebsd.org/releases/15.0R/schedule/#_additional_information" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.freebsd.org/releases/15.0R/schedule/#_additional_information"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.freebsd.org/releases/15.0R</span><span class="invisible">/schedule/#_additional_information</span></a>&gt;</p><p><a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#FreeBSD</a> <a href="/tags/help/" rel="tag">#help</a> <a href="/tags/installer/" rel="tag">#installer</a> <a href="/tags/bsdinstall/" rel="tag">#bsdinstall</a></p>

<p>Main: &quot;Tionisla&quot; - DELL Latitude e6540 <br>FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE-p5<br>Kernel: 14.3-RELEASE-p5 amd64<br>KDE/Plasma 6.5.0</p><p><a href="https://bsd-hardware.info/?probe=7e1c664559" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bsd-hardware.info/?probe=7e1c664559"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsd-hardware.info/?probe=7e1c6</span><span class="invisible">64559</span></a></p><p>Kudos to the FreeBSD/KDE folks!</p><p> <a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#FreeBSD</a> <a href="/tags/runbsd/" rel="tag">#RunBSD</a> <a href="/tags/kde/" rel="tag">#KDE</a> <a href="/tags/plasma/" rel="tag">#Plasma</a> <a href="/tags/kde_plasma/" rel="tag">#kde_plasma</a> <a href="/tags/screenshot/" rel="tag">#screenshot</a> <a href="/tags/desktop/" rel="tag">#desktop</a> <a href="/tags/unix/" rel="tag">#unix</a></p>

<p>Secondary: &quot;Tianve&quot; - HP 250 G3 <br>GhostBSD 25.02-R14.3p4<br>Kernel: 14.3-RELEASE-p4 amd64<br>KDE/Plasma 6.4.5/wayland</p><p><a href="https://bsd-hardware.info/?probe=102fa9b597" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bsd-hardware.info/?probe=102fa9b597"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsd-hardware.info/?probe=102fa</span><span class="invisible">9b597</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/ghostbsd/" rel="tag">#GhostBSD</a> <a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#FreeBSD</a> <a href="/tags/runbsd/" rel="tag">#RunBSD</a> <a href="/tags/kde/" rel="tag">#KDE</a> <a href="/tags/plasma/" rel="tag">#Plasma</a> <a href="/tags/kde_plasma/" rel="tag">#kde_plasma</a> <a href="/tags/wayland/" rel="tag">#wayland</a> <a href="/tags/screenshot/" rel="tag">#screenshot</a> <a href="/tags/desktop/" rel="tag">#desktop</a> <a href="/tags/unix/" rel="tag">#unix</a></p>

<p>New blog post: WINE Gaming in FreeBSD Jails with Bastille</p><p><a href="https://pertho.net/2025/11/07/wine-gaming-freebsd-jails/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="pertho.net/2025/11/07/wine-gaming-freebsd-jails/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pertho.net/2025/11/07/wine-gam</span><span class="invisible">ing-freebsd-jails/</span></a></p><p>I&#x27;d like to thank <span class="h-card"><a href="https://gts.tumfatig.net/@joel" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>joel</span></a></span> for the inspiration for this blog post.</p><p>Many thanks to <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@stefano" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>stefano</span></a></span> for hosting this awesome Mastodon instance and providing a place that the whole BSD community can come together to share knowledge.</p><p><a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#FreeBSD</a> <a href="/tags/bastillebsd/" rel="tag">#bastilleBSD</a> <a href="/tags/jails/" rel="tag">#jails</a> <a href="/tags/wine/" rel="tag">#wine</a> <a href="/tags/gaming/" rel="tag">#gaming</a></p>

<p>Updated the codeberg.org/thesaigoneer/freebsd-mangowc repo. Still a lot to do, but at least the most relevant things are there, including the mango configs itself 😆 Also the sw selection has been amended, including yazi and foot now.</p><p>cc <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@wickedlester" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>wickedlester</span></a></span> <br><a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#freebsd</a> <a href="/tags/mangowc/" rel="tag">#mangowc</a></p>

<p>Some notes on upgrading several <a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#FreeBSD</a> boxes from 14.3 to 15.0… </p><p>1) for Cthulhu’s sake run freebsd-update fetch and install on 14.3 before upgrading or you get a free paperweight or doorstop (depending on size), I have a paperweight to fix (cf. “there always is a reason for weird warning signs”)</p><p>2) if you run VMs w/ vm-bhyve:<br>2.1) the vm-bhyve “local” switch no longer works, use manual and set up the bridge yourselves in /etc/rc.conf.d/network,<br>2.2) vm-bhyve fails to load nmdm.ko so your VMs no longer start, add it to /boot/loader.conf.local with nmdm_load=“YES”</p><p>3) tmux… this was already the case with the recent 14.3 pkg upgrade but when upgrading the pkg… close all your sessions ‘cos when you try to reconnect to them after upgrading “computer says no”</p><p>4) oksh, yes I am an OpenBSD ksh fan, feel free to hate a <img src="https://neodb.social/media/emoji/bsd.network/flan_greybeard.png" class="emoji" alt=":flan_greybeard:" title=":flan_greybeard:">, now behaves correctly with ksh.kshrc - no more fancy workarounds needed</p><p>5) zpool upgrade -a is sooo worth it performance-wise (and you get to expand pools <img src="https://neodb.social/media/emoji/bsd.network/flan_hearts.png" class="emoji" alt=":flan_hearts:" title=":flan_hearts:"> )</p><p>On a separate note I am liking my restic backups now that they are fully implemented, including cross-DC backups for my private stuff, more opaque than rsync, but more efficient, I never quite got what I wanted out of rsync.</p>

<p>Main: &quot;Tionisla - Dell Latitude e6540<br>Kernel: 15.0-RELEASE-p2 amd64<br>Operating System: FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE-p2<br>Desktop: LXQT 2.3.0 <br>Windowmanager: XFWM4<br>Qt Version: 6.10.1<br>Graphics Platform: X11</p><p><a href="https://bsd-hardware.info/?probe=7e1c664559" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bsd-hardware.info/?probe=7e1c664559"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsd-hardware.info/?probe=7e1c6</span><span class="invisible">64559</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/runbsd/" rel="tag">#runbsd</a> <a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#freebsd</a> <a href="/tags/unix/" rel="tag">#unix</a> <a href="/tags/foss/" rel="tag">#foss</a> <a href="/tags/lxqt/" rel="tag">#lxqt</a> <a href="/tags/desktop/" rel="tag">#desktop</a> <a href="/tags/screenshot/" rel="tag">#screenshot</a></p>

<p>It has been so long since I ran a <a href="/tags/bsd/" rel="tag">#BSD</a> that I don&#x27;t even remember which BSD it was. (I could probably dig up that info...)</p><p>Circa 20 years ago I used to run BSD gateway/router machines.</p><p>I think I&#x27;d like to do this again, for a variety of reasons.</p><p>But which BSD should I run for this kind of network gateway. It won&#x27;t host any applications, it won&#x27;t be a NAS, it&#x27;ll purely be network/gateway... it&#x27;ll have the telco router on one side, internal network on another, and one or two DMZ/separate type networks (one for hosting external facing things like Mastodon, the other for untrusted IoT stuff.) It&#x27;ll run dhcp, dns, and probably be a VPN endpoint.</p><p>I do not want to run some specialist gateway adapted customised thing with dashboards etc, just want a plain vanilla OS. (And no bullcrap like containers, docker, etc. Just an OS running on a physical box.)</p><p>So, what OS should I run on my network gateway: <a href="/tags/openbsd/" rel="tag">#OpenBSD</a>, <a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#FreeBSD</a>, <a href="/tags/netbsd/" rel="tag">#NetBSD</a></p> <div class="poll"> <h3 style="display: none;">Options: <small>(choose one)</small></h3> <ul> <li> <label class="poll-option"> <input style="display:none" name="vote-options" type="radio" value="0"> <span class="poll-number" title="12 votes">67%</span> <span class="poll-option-text">OpenBSD</span> </label> </li> <li> <label class="poll-option"> <input style="display:none" name="vote-options" type="radio" value="0"> <span class="poll-number" title="2 votes">11%</span> <span class="poll-option-text">FreeBSD</span> </label> </li> <li> <label class="poll-option"> <input style="display:none" name="vote-options" type="radio" value="0"> <span class="poll-number" title="2 votes">11%</span> <span class="poll-option-text">NetBSD</span> </label> </li> <li> <label class="poll-option"> <input style="display:none" name="vote-options" type="radio" value="0"> <span class="poll-number" title="2 votes">11%</span> <span class="poll-option-text">Stick with Linux you bozo</span> </label> </li> <li> <label class="poll-option"> <input style="display:none" name="vote-options" type="radio" value="0"> <span class="poll-number" title="0 votes">0%</span> <span class="poll-option-text">Something else... (say what below)</span> </label> </li> </ul> <div class="poll-footer"> <span class="vote-total">18 votes</span> &mdash; <span class="vote-end">Ended 62d ago</span> <span class="todo">Polls are currently display only</span> </div> </div>

OK <a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#FreeBSD</a> folk why does <a href="/tags/qutebrowser/" rel="tag">#Qutebrowser</a> have to be removed ??? I need it ! Just tried to do an update on FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE-p2<br><br><p>Updating FreeBSD-ports repository catalogue...<br>FreeBSD-ports repository is up to date.<br>Updating FreeBSD-ports-kmods repository catalogue...<br>FreeBSD-ports-kmods repository is up to date.<br>All repositories are up to date.<br>Checking for upgrades (22 candidates): 100%<br>Processing candidates (22 candidates): 100%<br>The following 27 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked):<br><br>Installed packages to be UPGRADED:<br> AppStream: 1.1.1 -&gt; 1.1.2 [FreeBSD-ports]<br> harfbuzz: 12.3.0 -&gt; 12.3.2 [FreeBSD-ports]<br> harfbuzz-icu: 12.3.0 -&gt; 12.3.2 [FreeBSD-ports]<br> lcms2: 2.17 -&gt; 2.18 [FreeBSD-ports]<br> libfyaml: 0.9_1 -&gt; 0.9.3 [FreeBSD-ports]<br> libgcrypt: 1.11.2 -&gt; 1.12.0 [FreeBSD-ports]<br> mysql80-client: 8.0.44 -&gt; 8.0.45 [FreeBSD-ports]<br> orc: 0.4.41_1 -&gt; 0.4.42 [FreeBSD-ports]<br> pciids: 20251227 -&gt; 20260115 [FreeBSD-ports]<br> png: 1.6.53 -&gt; 1.6.54 [FreeBSD-ports]<br> py311-adblock: 0.6.0_48 -&gt; 0.6.0_49 [FreeBSD-ports]<br> py311-certifi: 2025.11.12 -&gt; 2026.1.4 [FreeBSD-ports]<br> py311-urllib3: 2.6.2,1 -&gt; 2.6.3,1 [FreeBSD-ports]<br> spdlog: 1.16.0_1 -&gt; 1.17.0 [FreeBSD-ports]<br> waybar: 0.14.0_2 -&gt; 0.14.0_3 [FreeBSD-ports]<br><br>Installed packages to be REINSTALLED:<br> ImageMagick7-7.1.2.11 [FreeBSD-ports] (required shared library changed)<br> cups-filters-1.28.17_12 [FreeBSD-ports] (required shared library changed)<br> libcdr01-0.1.8_1 [FreeBSD-ports] (required shared library changed)<br> libfreehand-0.1.2_27 [FreeBSD-ports] (required shared library changed)<br> libraw-0.21.5 [FreeBSD-ports] (required shared library changed)<br> libreoffice-25.8.4.2 [FreeBSD-ports] (required shared library changed)<br> openjdk17-17.0.17+10.1_1 [FreeBSD-ports] (required shared library changed)<br><br>Installed packages to be REMOVED:<br> py311-qt6-webengine: 6.10.0<br> qt6: 6.10.1<br> qt6-webengine: 6.10.1_3<br> qt6-webview: 6.10.1<br> qutebrowser: 3.6.3<br><br>Number of packages to be removed: 5<br>Number of packages to be upgraded: 15<br>Number of packages to be reinstalled: 7<br><br>The operation will free 291 MiB.<br>327 MiB to be downloaded.<br><br>Proceed with this action? [y/N]: <br></p>

<p>After decades on <a href="/tags/linux/" rel="tag">#Linux</a>, <a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#FreeBSD</a> finally gave me a reason to switch operating systems</p><p><a href="https://www.newsbeep.com/nz/270060/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.newsbeep.com/nz/270060/</a></p>

<p>I have asked for my <a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#FreeBSD</a> commit bit to be taken into safekeeping. It’s been a few years since I actually committed code to the repo (I still maintain libcxxrt and dtc, which are in the base system, so my code has been committed by others in that time).</p><p>This is the second time. I reactivated it a couple of years ago and wrote a qemufwcfg driver (split NetBSD-style between a simple kernel device and a FUSE filesystem), but the review comments put me off bothering to get it into the tree (someone else is welcome to do it if they want to pull it out of phabricator). I still occasionally do code review for other folks, feel free to keep tagging me for reviews.</p><p>Still a happy FreeBSD user. If I have FreeBSD time again (any decade now…) I hope to work more on container things. The Apple folks who did their container thing have said they’re happy to take patches to support FreeBSD containers. Their one-VM-per-container model makes this much easier than Podman, which assumes a single VM so is hard to transparently support both Linux and FreeBSD guests.</p><p>The only thing I’d like to do that I’d want to put in the base system is a more modern service management and eventing system. And I doubt I’ll have time to work on that for a few years.</p>

This <a href="/tags/libreoffice/" rel="tag">#LibreOffice</a> bug, where trying to create or open a password-protected file crashes the application, is what kept me from running <a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#FreeBSD</a> on my laptop (before that hardware died last month). I was able to keep running <a href="/tags/openbsd/" rel="tag">#OpenBSD</a> (where LibreOffice doesn&#x27;t crash) until the laptop gave up and wouldn&#x27;t run at all. <a href="https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=289266" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=289266"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show</span><span class="invisible">_bug.cgi?id=289266</span></a><br>

<p>Secondary: &quot;Tianve&quot; - HP-250 G3<br>Kernel: 14.3-RELEASE-p8 amd64<br>Operating System: GhostBSD 25.02-R14.3p8<br>Desktop: LXQT 2.3.0 <br>Windowmanager: XFWM4<br>Qt Version: 6.10.1<br>Graphics Platform: X11</p><p><a href="https://bsd-hardware.info/?probe=77494a1526" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bsd-hardware.info/?probe=77494a1526"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsd-hardware.info/?probe=77494</span><span class="invisible">a1526</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/runbsd/" rel="tag">#runbsd</a> <a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#freebsd</a> <a href="/tags/ghostbsd/" rel="tag">#ghostbsd</a> <a href="/tags/unix/" rel="tag">#unix</a> <a href="/tags/foss/" rel="tag">#foss</a> <a href="/tags/lxqt/" rel="tag">#lxqt</a> <a href="/tags/desktop/" rel="tag">#desktop</a> <a href="/tags/screenshot/" rel="tag">#screenshot</a></p>