From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 17 16:15:28 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D34A0FB8 for ; Mon, 17 Dec 2012 16:15:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jflowers@ezo.net) Received: from smtp.ezo.net (mbox2.ezo.net [69.36.15.166]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A66528FC0C for ; Mon, 17 Dec 2012 16:15:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ezo.net (localhost.ezo.net [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.ezo.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C669284E8 for ; Mon, 17 Dec 2012 11:19:38 -0500 (EST) From: "jflowers" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD/EC2 -9.0-Current 2011-01-01 (ami-f4db2a9d) Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 11:19:37 -0500 Message-Id: <20121217155015.M90220@ezo.net> X-Mailer: OpenWebMail 2.52 20060502 X-OriginatingIP: 99.40.134.222 (jflowers@ezo.net) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 16:15:28 -0000 I'm working my way through a re-education for EC2. I read a lot of posts but find it confusing to keep up with the current state of the art as to what information is applicable and what is not: 1. I had convinced myself that I was being told that I had to use a Windows instance but then found this AMI. It launched for T1.micro, always with the note that it was available for the free-tier which is important to me. Have I been too optimistic or is it, indeed, running with the free-tier restrictions? 2. Unfortunately, after I had spent a couple of hours on installing ports, I installed pkgng. It seemed to install OK but then when I ran pkg2ng it didn't work throwing the following error message twice. /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Undefined symbol "Quiet" referenced from COPY relocation in /usr/sbin/pkg_info. and then ... Conversion has been successfully finished Your old packages database has been moved to: /var/db/pkg.bak There is no sign of a pkg.bak anywhere on the machine and, of course, pkg_* tools don't work. /var/db/pkg is still fully populated with what looks like the correct files. There is also no perl installed So my question is "Is there any way I can recover pkg_* tools or get pkgng to function? With only a couple of hours in it, I'm tempted to just start over and use one of the RELEASE AMIs. 3. I also noted a thread where Colin Percival talked about an initial launch as c1.medium to set things up and then restarting as t1.micro. Won't this trigger a minimum bill for 1 month being added to my free-tier $0.00? Thanks for any help responses to get me pointed in the right direction. -- Jim Flowers