11.2

I'm trying to translate whiteout files from the AUFS format to the kernel-overlay FS format. This entails marking certain directories with the extended attribute trusted.overlay.opaque = y. Unfortunately, it seems that at least by default, FreeBSD only supports the user and system namespaces for...

I am repurposing a 10Zig Linux thin client terminal that has a dual core 64-bit intel atom with AES-NI, but I cannot install any version of FreeBSD beyond 11.1-RELEASE . I have tried every version in memstick form, 10.3, 10.4, 11.0, 11.1 which all install successfully and the installed system...

Hi, I've tried to upgrade a 10.3 to 11.2 (that is a dedicated remote server without direct access), the boot to 11.2 failed. I got a message from my provider that the server was blocked with this message : mounting from zfs:root failed with error 6 After restarting the server in rescue mode...

Hi guys, I recently installed FreeBSD-11.2 which by default provieds KDE suite applications using Qt5. I can't see how I can install Ksnapshow in Qt5, the only package/port I see for KDE-4. I took a look at Freshports but still, I can't find what I am looking for. Can you give me an hint ...

When I do my username and password the screen goes blank and goes back to welcome to home. In the bottom right corner there is a white box that says console log for home. Whenever I boot it puts me into this and I can get out. It wont let me switch to other virtual consoles. xserver was failing...

I installed xorg and it boots correctly. I installed gnome3 from the ports tree and it says that gdm is automatically installed with it. I have gdm_enable="YES" in rc.conf. When I try to start service gdm onestart it says gdm does not exist in /etc/rc.d or the local startup directories or is not...

Long-established box previously running 11.1-RELEASE-p11 on a ZFS mirrored pool. I've gone through the standard steps for upgrading a few times, including ZFS rollback/clone to pre-upgrade state with ZFS/beadm and always end up with the same result -- the 11.2 kernel freezes on boot, the 11.1...