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grahamperrin / 2026-02-14 04-08 whoopsie.md
Last active February 14, 2026 05:02
kwin_wayland segfault, 2026-02-14 04:08

kwin_wayland segfault, 2026-02-14 04:08

In Firefox, logged in at https://forums.virtualbox.org/posting.php?mode=reply&t=113890 whlist drafting a reply, I clicked to add an image. [img][/img] code appeared, so I keyed Control-T for a new tab then went to my logged in view of https://imgbb.com/.

Then probably Alt-Tab to bring Dolphin to the foreground, and whilst I began browsing screenshots, if I recall correctly:

  1. on my secondary display, an HP ZBook 17 G2 (docked), the screen became distorted
  2. apps disappeared from my main display, to the left (on DisplayPort)
  3. some apps reappeared
  4. plasmashell reappeared
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grahamperrin / pkg.freebsd.org-pkg-urls.md
Last active January 31, 2026 13:14
pkg.freebsd.org package download URLs

pkg.freebsd.org package download URLs

When a FreeBSD Project-provided package is not in the usual places, we can look in unusual places.

An example: editors/vscode

Currently at https://www.freshports.org/editors/vscode/#packages:

No package information for this port in our database …

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grahamperrin / fediverse-decision-time.md
Last active January 26, 2026 20:54
Fediverse decision time

Fediverse decision time

I needed a second home. The winner:

Runner-up:

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grahamperrin / freebsd-15.0-release-amd64-zfs.vhd-quickstart.md
Last active January 7, 2026 19:48
FreeBSD 15 VirtualBox quick start
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grahamperrin / etn-review.md
Last active January 3, 2026 15:40
partial review
  1. https://old.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1pq7qci/-/nwdqbq1/?context=2 under post 1pq7qci
  2. https://old.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1pq7qci/-/nwdr78v/?context=1 under post 1pq7qci
  3. https://old.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1pq7qci/-/nwfglk9/?context=3 under post 1pq7qci involving removal of a comment from ETN
  4. https://old.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1pq7qci/-/nwfhjrg/?context=1 under post 1pq7qci
  5. https://old.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1pq7qci/-/nwimgms/?context=3 under post 1pq7qci involving removal of a comment from ETN, moderator STRIKE ONE
  6. https://old.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1pq7qci/-/nwjgftj/?context=2 under post 1pq7qci involving removal of two comments from ETN, moderator CLOSE TO STRIKE TWO
  7. https://old.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1pyab53/-/nwipu7n/?context=2 under post 1pyab53 ETN seeking a backstory, promising to not leak
  8. https://old.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1pymcte/-/ post 1pymcte (ETN, 2025-12-29)
  9. https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=5
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grahamperrin / FreeBSD-src-16-inferior.md
Last active January 1, 2026 09:46
Adding the FreeBSD-src-16 base package to inferior versions of FreeBSD, for the FreeBSD-base 15 repo keys

Adding the FreeBSD-src-16 base package to inferior versions of FreeBSD, for the FreeBSD-base 15 repo keys

For https://www.freebsd.org/releases/15.0R/relnotes/#upgrade-rc and the like.

Where a pair of cp commands involves these two paths – a file, and a directory file:

/usr/src/usr.sbin/pkg/FreeBSD.conf.quarterly-release
/usr/src/share/keys/pkgbase-15
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grahamperrin / 2025-11-29-virtualbox.txt
Created November 29, 2025 13:42
All VirtualBox VMs terminating unexpectedly during startup with exit code 1 (0x1) – Result Code: NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005) – Component: MachineWrap – Interface: IMachine {e36a5081-a82a-40bd-9e4e-42a44d6ce50f}
grahamperrin@mowa219-gjp4 ~> VBoxManage startvm removable
Waiting for VM "removable" to power on...
VBoxManage: error: The virtual machine 'removable' has terminated unexpectedly during startup with exit code 1 (0x1)
VBoxManage: error: Details: code NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005), component MachineWrap, interface IMachine
grahamperrin@mowa219-gjp4 ~ [1]> sudo dmesg | grep -i vbox
[sudo: authenticate] Password:
[ 65.864631] vboxdrv: module verification failed: signature and/or required key missing - tainting kernel
[ 65.878166] vboxdrv: Found 8 processor cores/threads
[ 65.894652] vboxdrv: TSC mode is Invariant, tentative frequency 2494209944 Hz
[ 65.894659] vboxdrv: Successfully loaded version 7.2.4 r170995 (interface 0x00340001)
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grahamperrin / freebsd-15.0-beta5-desktop-online.txt
Created November 9, 2025 04:00
FreeBSD 15-BETA5: using the Foundation-funded desktop script for online installation of KDE Plasma and applications, SDDM, X.Org, and Oracle® VirtualBox Guest Additions
Script started on Sat Nov 8 22:52:14 2025
root@fifteen-beta5:~ # /bin/tcsh
/bin/sh: /bin/tcsh: not found
root@fifteen-beta5:~ # which ee
root@fifteen-beta5:~ # pkg install -qy FreeBSD-csh FreeBSD-ee FreeBSD-bsdconfig
Generating apropos(1) database for /usr/share/man...
Generating apropos(1) database for /usr/share/openssl/man...
root@fifteen-beta5:~ # /bin/tcsh
root@fifteen-beta5:~ # fetch https://tinyurl.com/desktop-alfix
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grahamperrin / freebsd-15.0-beta5-dvd-offline.txt
Created November 9, 2025 01:39
FreeBSD 15: offline installation of GNOME (in the absence of KDE Plasma and applications) using FreeBSD-15.0-BETA5-amd64-dvd1.iso
Script started on Sun Nov 9 00:32:47 2025
root@fifteen-beta5:~ # /bin/tcsh
/bin/sh: /bin/tcsh: not found
root@fifteen-beta5:~ # which ee
root@fifteen-beta5:~ # mkdir -p /dist
root@fifteen-beta5:~ # mount_cd9660 /dev/cd0 /dist
root@fifteen-beta5:~ # cd /dist/usr/freebsd-packages/offline
root@fifteen-beta5:/dist/usr/freebsd-packages/offline # ls -hln FreeBSD-bsdconfig-15* FreeBSD-csh-15* FreeBSD-ee-15*
-rw-r--r-- 1 0 0 184K Nov 7 12:44 FreeBSD-bsdconfig-15.0.b5.20251107103050.pkg
-rw-r--r-- 1 0 0 373K Nov 7 12:44 FreeBSD-csh-15.0.b5.20251107103050.pkg
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grahamperrin / mate-freebsd-15.0-beta4.txt
Last active November 2, 2025 00:00
Installing MATE whilst booted from FreeBSD-15.0-BETA4-amd64-dvd1.iso
Script started on Sat Nov 1 15:59:36 2025
# mount | grep cd
/dev/iso9660/15_0_BETA4_AMD64_DVD on / (cd9660, local, read-only)
# which csh
# ee
/bin/sh: ee: not found
# nano
/bin/sh: nano: not found
# pkg install -qy FreeBSD-ee FreeBSD-csh FreeBSD-bsdconfig nano
pkg: Repository FreeBSD-base has a wrong packagesite, need to re-create database