From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 12 05:31:44 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 15F0BBD8 for ; Tue, 12 Aug 2014 05:31:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx01.qsc.de (mx01.qsc.de [213.148.129.14]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C6FAA2789 for ; Tue, 12 Aug 2014 05:31:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from r56.edvax.de (port-92-195-111-1.dynamic.qsc.de [92.195.111.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx01.qsc.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3CBCE3CC52; Tue, 12 Aug 2014 07:31:41 +0200 (CEST) Received: from r56.edvax.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by r56.edvax.de (8.14.5/8.14.5) with SMTP id s7C5Vfg3001928; Tue, 12 Aug 2014 07:31:41 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 07:31:41 +0200 From: Polytropon To: David Benfell Subject: Re: operation not permitted on entropy file Message-Id: <20140812073141.217954e3.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20140812023229.GB84770@home.parts-unknown.org> References: <20140810070239.GA80734@home.parts-unknown.org> <20140810103119.GA26958@slackbox.erewhon.home> <20140810124433.da498898.freebsd@edvax.de> <20140810224038.GD24036@home.parts-unknown.org> <20140811101822.41851cc7.freebsd@edvax.de> <20140811142707.GA10186@home.parts-unknown.org> <20140811171653.b7c60e58.freebsd@edvax.de> <20140811153535.GA30506@home.parts-unknown.org> <20140811183912.ef0f20a6.freebsd@edvax.de> <20140812023229.GB84770@home.parts-unknown.org> Reply-To: Polytropon Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.1.1 (GTK+ 2.24.5; i386-portbld-freebsd8.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 05:31:44 -0000 On Mon, 11 Aug 2014 19:32:29 -0700, David Benfell wrote: > On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 06:39:12PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > > > > After being done in single user mode, type "exit" to > > continue booting to multi user mode. Then press Ctrl+Alt+PF2 > > and login with your user name and password - in text mode. > > Use the editor of choice to create a capture file, for > > example > > > > % ee /tmp/fsck.txt > > > > Then press Alt+F1 to see the virtual console where the > > output of the booting process has been written to. Press > > Scroll Lock, then use the arrow keys to scroll up to where > > fsck wrote its messages. Select the first 25 lines with > > the left mouse button, switch over to Alt+PF2 (editor) > > and paste the text with the middle mouse button. Then > > return to Alt+PF1, scroll down, and capture the next > > portion of the text, back to Alt+PF2, paste - until you > > have reached the "exit" command. Now save the file and > > send the text to the mailing list. > > Oh, so scroll lock is the secret to making this work? I had no idea. No, Scroll Lock is a fully normal key that does what is printed on the keycap. Why so surprised? ;-) > Wouldn't the copy and paste operation require moused? I have an issue > here because I haven't figured out how to get moused to recognize my > USB mouse (which is strange: it does this just fine on my notebook). Yes, moused would need to be enabled, so the console can provide mouse support. It's quite handy for transfering text from one virtual terminal to another. By the way, left-doubleclick selects words, left-tripleclick selects the whole line, and left-click selects start + right-click selects end of a region. It works with _any_ program. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...