Sick and Sick
I've been sick for the last week. On Wednesday I threw in the towel and took a sick day.
I finally had to give up on the SCSI drive. I was sick of fighting with the hardware.
I could not install any of the BSD's and Slackware failed to start on the reboot. With being in bed I did a lot of thinking and decided I wanted FreeBSD and configured my hardware to meet the needs of the FreeBSD. SCSI hardware removed.
So I manage to kick off the install of FreeBSD and started the installation of /usr/ports/x11/xorg before I went to bed. On one of my bed breaks I got my fonts installed and kicked off /usr/ports/x11/kde4. It failed with a stop error on LDAP. I reconfigure to remove LDAP from, oh crap now I forget which program I selected it in. Oops. I kicked off the KDE4 build and back to bed.
In latest bed break I noticed that the time on the server was off and set up ntpd.
Well, heck. Ran into a dependency problem with KDEPIM, so I removed it. Reran my build and kdeplasma-addons and got the error:
/usr/local/kde4/lib/libakonadi-kde.so.5.0.1: undefined reference to `Akonadi::FavoriteCollectionsModel::collections() const'
After 15 hours and 33 mins I'm throwing in that towel of building from ports. I was also transfering data to my laptop via a USB Thumb drive when I Panac'ed the system. Oops Oh !!!
I wanted to have a pure FreeBSD Server. I also want data security.
I installed PC-BSD 9.0, but I am getting missing library errors when I start konqueror:
Cannot load library /usr/local/lib/kde4/libkhtmlpart.so: (Shared object "libgif.so.5" not found, required by "libkhtml.so.7")
So onto PC-BSD 9.1 RC1... It installed fine, but never survived the reboot. Okay it was worth a shot.
Back to FreeBSD 9.0. I am installing Xfce. I used it on my Slackware server and since this will also be a server it will be fine for all I'm doing.
Xfce would not initialize. This is getting tiring.
OK back to PC-BSD 9.0.
Found a hiccup in PC-BSD. It takes forever to move files on a ext2fs. Give that I have about 2GB of data spread across half a dozen drives with ext and NTFS file systems, this is not going to work.
Well okay, I've been at this for 3 days without what I call a successful BSD installation. Towel tossed on BSD. I think it is an awesome OS but after several tries and not a complete success It is time to move on.
Slack has always worked for me, I'm going back.