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      danswartz
      last edited by

      This looked like just the ticket for me, so I install the package.  No obvious errors, but checking shows the program not running.  I try manually starting it and it complains that libpng.so.5 is missing.  I try 'pkg_add -r libpng' from a command prompt, and get this:

      pkg_add -r libpng

      Error: FTP Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7.2-release/Latest/libpng.tbz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
      pkg_add: unable to fetch 'ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7.2-release/Latest/libpng.tbz' by URL

      urk :(

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        danswartz
        last edited by

        Boy, is this my lucky day.  I decided to give ntop a shot instead.  Guess what?  It's broken too!  And here is why:

        pkg_add -r libfreetype

        Error: FTP Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7.2-release/Latest/libfreetype.tbz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
        pkg_add: unable to fetch 'ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7.2-release/Latest/libfreetype.tbz' by URL

        I'm guessing I am running into package repo breakage and not package breakage here?  More than a little frustrated :(

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          danswartz
          last edited by

          Okay, it IS package breakage.  I found that libfreetype.so (or whatever) is in freetype2, not libfreetype.  So I installed that manually and it still didn't work.  That turned out to be libpng just like bandwidthd.  I then installed png instead of libpng and now it is running.  A little frustrated that something this basic was committed to the repo :(

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          • jimpJ
            jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
            last edited by

            What version of pfSense are you trying this on?

            It's possible the package as it exists was intended for an older version of pfSense and hasn't been updated (or vice versa and it expects a newer one)

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              _igor_
              last edited by

              Maybe looking for a libpng.so.? and manually linking to the found lib will help:

              find / -name "libpng.so.?", when it finds a /lib/libpng.so.4 you van do a ln -s /lib/libpng.so.4 /lib/libpng.so.5.

              And so on for other missing libs.

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                danswartz
                last edited by

                This is 1.2.3 RC3 on a full install.

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                  danswartz
                  last edited by

                  Igor, maybe I wasn't clear.  The problem is that the package installer is trying to download the wrong files.  For example, it is trying to ftp libfreetype, but the library is actually in freetype2.  And ntop is trying to do the same thing, along with trying to get libpng via ftp when the package to install is png.  It all works now, once I loaded the correct names.  I did:

                  pkg_add -r png
                  pkg_add -r freetype2

                  and then re-did the bandwidthd and ntop installs (I did both because I want to test drive both).

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                    danswartz
                    last edited by

                    This is even weirder than I thought.  I created a VM and installed pfsense into it and both packages install fine.  I reinstalled the VM with no packages and found:

                    /usr/local/lib/libpng.so.5
                    /usr/local/lib/libfreetype.so.9

                    so, apparently those come preinstalled, NOT installed by the package requirements, so much of this was a red herring (sorry!).  That begs the question of why my production install didn't have either of those libraries :(  At least I know how to get around this for now.  Sorry for the false alarm.

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                      danswartz
                      last edited by

                      The only thing I recall being odd about my production install was that the easy install didn't work - I had to nuke the first N blocks on the disk and then it installed.  Oh well, a mystery…

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                      • jimpJ
                        jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                        last edited by

                        Seems to work for me on a 1.2.3-RC system updated last Saturday.

                        The package add went fine, and it starts up and runs:

                        ov 20 09:32:35 pfSense-123test php: /pkg_mgr_install.php: Beginning package installation for bandwidthd.
Nov 20 09:32:50 pfSense-123test php: /pkg_mgr_install.php: You should specify a interface for bandwidthd to listen on.  exiting.
Nov 20 09:32:52 pfSense-123test bandwidthd: Opening fxp0
Nov 20 09:32:52 pfSense-123test kernel: fxp0: promiscuous mode enabled
Nov 20 09:32:52 pfSense-123test bandwidthd: Opening fxp0
Nov 20 09:32:52 pfSense-123test bandwidthd: Packet Encoding: Ethernet
Nov 20 09:32:52 pfSense-123test bandwidthd: Opening fxp0
Nov 20 09:32:52 pfSense-123test bandwidthd: Opening fxp0
Nov 20 09:32:52 pfSense-123test bandwidthd: Packet Encoding: Ethernet
Nov 20 09:33:24 pfSense-123test kernel: fxp0: promiscuous mode disabled
Nov 20 09:32:52 pfSense-123test last message repeated 2 times
Nov 20 09:33:26 pfSense-123test bandwidthd: Monitoring subnet 192.168.30.0 with netmask 192.168.30.0
Nov 20 09:33:26 pfSense-123test kernel: fxp0: promiscuous mode enabled
Nov 20 09:33:26 pfSense-123test kernel: vlan1: promiscuous mode enabled
Nov 20 09:33:26 pfSense-123test bandwidthd: Opening vlan1
Nov 20 09:33:26 pfSense-123test bandwidthd: Opening vlan1
Nov 20 09:33:26 pfSense-123test bandwidthd: Packet Encoding: Ethernet
Nov 20 09:33:26 pfSense-123test bandwidthd: Packet Encoding: Ethernet
Nov 20 09:33:26 pfSense-123test bandwidthd: Opening vlan1
Nov 20 09:33:26 pfSense-123test bandwidthd: Opening vlan1
Nov 20 09:33:26 pfSense-123test bandwidthd: Packet Encoding: Ethernet

                        (Though the subnet mask is printed incorrectly…)

                        This is a testing box so it has a few other random packages on it, which might explain the difference

                        # pkg_info
bandwidthd-2.0.1_1  Tracks bandwidth usage by IP address
daemontools-0.76_12 Service monitoring and logging utilities by djb
db41-4.1.25_4       The Berkeley DB package, revision 4.1
denyhosts-2.5       Script to thwart ssh attacks
djbdns-1.05_12      A collection of secure and reliable DNS tools
gd-2.0.35,1         A graphics library for fast creation of images
grub-0.97_3         GRand Unified Bootloader
host-991529         An utility to query DNS servers
jpeg-6b_4           IJG's jpeg compression utilities
libiconv-1.11_1     A character set conversion library
mbmon-205_4         A tty motherboard monitor for LM78/79, W8378x, AS99127F, VT
openldap-client-2.4.10 Open source LDAP client implementation
openldap-client-2.4.11 Open source LDAP client implementation
packages            BSD Installer mega-package
perl-5.8.8_1        Practical Extraction and Report Language
python24-2.4.3_3    An interpreted object-oriented programming language
squid-2.6.21        HTTP Caching Proxy
squidGuard-1.3_1    A fast redirector for squid
squid_radius_auth-1.10 RADIUS authenticator for squid proxy 2.5 and later
stunnel-4.25        SSL encryption wrapper for standard network daemons
tcpflow-0.21_1      A tool for capturing data transmitted as part of TCP connec
ucspi-tcp-0.88_2    Command-line tools for building TCP client-server applicati

                        I don't have a fresh install to try at the moment.

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                          danswartz
                          last edited by

                          yes, a mystery.  i have tried on 3 different virtual machines and it works fine everytime.  must have been some kind of odd glitch when i did that first install.  sigh…

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