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headers Jeff | 1 Apr 2010 06:33 · /8/

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I've just finished uploading the next snapshot of PC-BSD based upon 
8-Stable:

ftp://ftp.pcbsd.org/pub/snapshots/8/

There have been a fair number of fixes to the installer in this release. 
I've written a patch to "geli" allowing us to use passphrases
for the first time now. When you click to enable encryption, it'll 
prompt you for a password, and when you boot that
same password will be required to mount the disk. Also, I've been able 
to track down some bugs with the installer crashing and
rebooting spontaneously. If anybody still runs into a case where that 
happens, please send me as MUCH detail as possible about
the type of install being done, FS setup, point where it crashes, etc.

I'm finishing up some last enhancements to the installer now, and when 
that's in place it should be pretty much feature-complete
for 8.1 and we can begin working more on the desktop side of things. KDE 
4.4.x should be going into the ports tree here soon,
and I hope to have it in the next snapshot for us to play with.

Thanks again so much for your continual help in testing/improving PC-BSD!

8.1 TODO List:

http://wiki.pcbsd.org/index.php/PC-BSD_8.1_TODO

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On 03/30/2010 18:25, Walt Pawley wrote:
> On 3/30/10 9:30 AM +0000, Kris Moore wrote on Re: [PC-BSD
> Testing] kioslave for file ???
>
>    
>> On 03/30/2010 06:47, Walt Pawley wrote:
>>      
>>> Working with PC-BSD 7.1. Something has changed and I've been
>>> trying to find it for a couple of days, on and off as time has
>>> allowed. Mostly, I've managed to gain a thumping headache
>>> pawing through mounds of documentation, etc. Hera are some of
>>> the symptoms:
>>>
>>> Starting File Manager (Dolphin): URL cannot be listed file:///home/wump
>>>
>>> Clicking OK gets:  URL cannot be listed file:///usr/home/wump
>>>
>>> Dolphin does come up, but the file content is empty. Clicking
>>> the Root icon produces the error  URL cannot be listed file:///
>>>
>>> Clicking Network results in  URL cannot be listed remote:/
>>>
>>> Clicking Trash results in  URL cannot be listed trash:/
>>>
>>> Firing up File Manager (Administrator) results in: Could not
>>> start process. Unable to create io-slave: klauncher said:
>>> Unknown protocol 'file'.
>>>
>>> Other applications also fail attempting to use the file:
>>> protocol to access files though I'm not certain it's
>>> ubiquitous. Curiously, as of the last time I tested it, which
>>> was after noting much of the above behavior, typing the
>>> "file:///home/wump" into Firefox's location field resulted in a
>>> listing of the files in my home directory. I suspect that
>>> Firefox is not attempting to use KDE's libkio for this activity.
>>>
>>> I get the feeling this not a big job to fix ... IF one knows
>>> what to tweak. Anyone care to allay my ignorance?
>>>
>>>        
>> So at this point it sounds like dolphin isn't working at all, correct?
>> How about if you open a xterm / konsole, and run "tail -f
>> .xsession-errors" while trying to use dolphin. Any interesting messages
>> going by on the failure?
>>      
> Yup, Dolphin pretty much can't locate anything. I hope this is
> sufficiently interesting:
>
> ~$ tail -f .xsession-errors
> "
> SystemUpdater(1960): couldn't create slave: "Unable to create io-slave:
> klauncher said: Unknown protocol 'http'.
> "
> SystemUpdater(1960): couldn't create slave: "Unable to create io-slave:
> klauncher said: Unknown protocol 'http'.
> "
> SystemUpdater(1960): couldn't create slave: "Unable to create io-slave:
> klauncher said: Unknown protocol 'http'.
> "
> kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/local/kde4/bin/dolphin
> dolphin(85597) KLocalePrivate::initEncoding: Cannot resolve
> system encoding, defaulting to ISO 8859-1.
> [/usr/local/kde4/bin/nepomukservicestub] (ServerCore) new socket connection.
> Object::connect: No such signal DolphinView::redirection(KUrl,KUrl)
> Object::connect: No such signal DolphinView::redirection(KUrl,KUrl)
> dolphin(85597)/kdecore (trader)
> KServiceTypeTrader::defaultOffers: KServiceTypeTrader:
> serviceType  "ThumbCreator"  not found
> dolphin(85597)/kdecore (trader)
> KServiceTypeTrader::defaultOffers: KServiceTypeTrader:
> serviceType  "ThumbCreator"  not found
>
>
>    

Well, that really doesn't give a clear error on why it can't work :(

Was it working before and just stopped? Maybe something got corrupted in 
.kde4/?

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On 4/1/10 12:42 PM +0000, Kris Moore wrote:

>On 03/30/2010 18:25, Walt Pawley wrote:
>> On 3/30/10 9:30 AM +0000, Kris Moore wrote on Re: [PC-BSD
>> Testing] kioslave for file ???
>>
>>
>>> On 03/30/2010 06:47, Walt Pawley wrote:
>>>
>>>> Working with PC-BSD 7.1. Something has changed and I've been
>>>> trying to find it for a couple of days, on and off as time has
>>>> allowed. Mostly, I've managed to gain a thumping headache
>>>> pawing through mounds of documentation, etc. Hera are some of
>>>> the symptoms:
>>>>
>>>> Starting File Manager (Dolphin): URL cannot be listed file:///home/wump
>>>>
>>>> Clicking OK gets:  URL cannot be listed file:///usr/home/wump
>>>>
>>>> Dolphin does come up, but the file content is empty. Clicking
>>>> the Root icon produces the error  URL cannot be listed file:///
>>>>
>>>> Clicking Network results in  URL cannot be listed remote:/
>>>>
>>>> Clicking Trash results in  URL cannot be listed trash:/
>>>>
>>>> Firing up File Manager (Administrator) results in: Could not
>>>> start process. Unable to create io-slave: klauncher said:
>>>> Unknown protocol 'file'.
>>>>
>>>> Other applications also fail attempting to use the file:
>>>> protocol to access files though I'm not certain it's
>>>> ubiquitous. Curiously, as of the last time I tested it, which
>>>> was after noting much of the above behavior, typing the
>>>> "file:///home/wump" into Firefox's location field resulted in a
>>>> listing of the files in my home directory. I suspect that
>>>> Firefox is not attempting to use KDE's libkio for this activity.
>>>>
>>>> I get the feeling this not a big job to fix ... IF one knows
>>>> what to tweak. Anyone care to allay my ignorance?
>>>>
>>>>
>>> So at this point it sounds like dolphin isn't working at all, correct?
>>> How about if you open a xterm / konsole, and run "tail -f
>>> .xsession-errors" while trying to use dolphin. Any interesting messages
>>> going by on the failure?
>>>
>> Yup, Dolphin pretty much can't locate anything. I hope this is
>> sufficiently interesting:
>>
>> ~$ tail -f .xsession-errors
>> "
>> SystemUpdater(1960): couldn't create slave: "Unable to create io-slave:
>> klauncher said: Unknown protocol 'http'.
>> "
>> SystemUpdater(1960): couldn't create slave: "Unable to create io-slave:
>> klauncher said: Unknown protocol 'http'.
>> "
>> SystemUpdater(1960): couldn't create slave: "Unable to create io-slave:
>> klauncher said: Unknown protocol 'http'.
>> "
>> kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/local/kde4/bin/dolphin
>> dolphin(85597) KLocalePrivate::initEncoding: Cannot resolve
>> system encoding, defaulting to ISO 8859-1.
>> [/usr/local/kde4/bin/nepomukservicestub] (ServerCore) new socket connection.
>> Object::connect: No such signal DolphinView::redirection(KUrl,KUrl)
>> Object::connect: No such signal DolphinView::redirection(KUrl,KUrl)
>> dolphin(85597)/kdecore (trader)
>> KServiceTypeTrader::defaultOffers: KServiceTypeTrader:
>> serviceType  "ThumbCreator"  not found
>> dolphin(85597)/kdecore (trader)
>> KServiceTypeTrader::defaultOffers: KServiceTypeTrader:
>> serviceType  "ThumbCreator"  not found
>>
>>
>>
>
>Well, that really doesn't give a clear error on why it can't work :(

Yeah. I most certainly believe that!

>Was it working before and just stopped? Maybe something got corrupted in
>.kde4/?

That is pretty much the way I remember it. I supposed that some
code must have gotten dinged up and was shorting out some
connection. I've been hunting for that ding ever since ...
until late last night. For reasons that escape me, the problem
seems to have cleared up after a system restart. Why this
should have happened is inexplicable because I've rebooted the
system numerous times since with the problem persisting
throughout. Alikazzam!
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On 04/01/2010 21:20, Walt Pawley wrote:
>
> Yeah. I most certainly believe that!
>
>    
>> Was it working before and just stopped? Maybe something got corrupted in
>> .kde4/?
>>      
> That is pretty much the way I remember it. I supposed that some
> code must have gotten dinged up and was shorting out some
> connection. I've been hunting for that ding ever since ...
> until late last night. For reasons that escape me, the problem
> seems to have cleared up after a system restart. Why this
> should have happened is inexplicable because I've rebooted the
> system numerous times since with the problem persisting
> throughout. Alikazzam!
>    

Well, chock it up to a KDE4 oddity then I guess. If you can duplicate it 
let us know, since we'll want to make sure
it is fixed in 4.4.x here soon :)

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On 04/02/2010 05:41, Kris Moore wrote:
> On 04/01/2010 21:20, Walt Pawley wrote:
>>
>> Yeah. I most certainly believe that!
>>
>>> Was it working before and just stopped? Maybe something got 
>>> corrupted in
>>> .kde4/?
>> That is pretty much the way I remember it. I supposed that some
>> code must have gotten dinged up and was shorting out some
>> connection. I've been hunting for that ding ever since ...
>> until late last night. For reasons that escape me, the problem
>> seems to have cleared up after a system restart. Why this
>> should have happened is inexplicable because I've rebooted the
>> system numerous times since with the problem persisting
>> throughout. Alikazzam!
>
> Well, chock it up to a KDE4 oddity then I guess. If you can duplicate 
> it let us know, since we'll want to make sure
> it is fixed in 4.4.x here soon :)
>
>
Murphy Law?

http://wiki.freebsd.org/Releng/8.1TODO

Release date of July 9th. Should we start taking bets on that date? My 
money is in August 30th.

My guess would be early August.  I'm keeping an eye on this though so we can try to have pcbsd 8.1 out shortly
thereafter.  

Arthur Koziol <A-Koziol@...> wrote:

>http://wiki.freebsd.org/Releng/8.1TODO
>
>Release date of July 9th. Should we start taking bets on that date? My 
>money is in August 30th.
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Have you heard anything on how well Grand Central Dispatch is working?

> My guess would be early August.  I'm keeping an eye on this though so we can try to have pcbsd 8.1 out shortly thereafter.
>
> Arthur Koziol<A-Koziol@...>  wrote:
>
>    
>> http://wiki.freebsd.org/Releng/8.1TODO
>>
>> Release date of July 9th. Should we start taking bets on that date? My
>> money is in August 30th.
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