Tag: freebsd

  • If NVIDIA is not finding screens for X

    Things to check:That you have BusID in your Device section – syntax example BusID “PCI:1:0:0” (you can discover it for example using nvidia-xconfig –query-gpu-info or pciconf -lv). If you have problem with finding modes for monitor you can add Option “ModeDebug” “True” to your Device section in xorg.conf.

  • How to delete message from sendmail queue

    First find it with$ mailq/var/spool/mqueue (1 request)—–Q-ID—– –Size– —–Q-Time—– ————Sender/Recipient———–w0MEs0vA055142 5289 Mon Jan 22 14:54(Deferred: Operation timed out with some server.) Total requests: 1 Then delete it using qtool.pl (in sendmail’s contrib dir): ./qtool.pl -C /etc/mail/sendmail.cf -d /var/spool/mqueue/w0MEs0vA055142

  • Clean package cache

    Run pkg clean. Quite logical, but I keep forgetting command.

  • Importing SSL certificates into Mono store

    Run cert-sync –user /etc/ssl/cert.pem. Omit –user to synchronize for entire system (note that this installs them in /usr/share/.mono rather than /usr/local/share/.mono). Without this you might be experiencing errors like “Ssl error:1000007d:SSL routines:OPENSSL_internal:CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED” or similar

  • When application is not listed in preferred applications in MATE

    Reason for this is application .desktop file missing MimeType specification. For example for me mplayer and thunderbird are not listed as choices for video and mail respectively. To fix this edit application’s .desktop file (in /usr/local/share/applications directory, or in ~/.local/share/applications) and run update-desktop-database afterwards (with -v to show its warnings). For thunderbird I usedMimeType=x-scheme-handler/mailtoand for…

  • Get list of manually installed packages

    To get list of manually installed packages (ie, those not installed as dependencies) use this command:pkg query -e ‘%a = 0’ %o | sort