I have painstakingly configured my beloved FreeBSD for my computer, adding numerous personal customizations. I absolutely do not want to redo everything from scratch, even though I’ve documented it all for myself. Please help me get that cursed mouse off my character-based display because it’s preventing me from seeing my terminal commands.

put your dotfiles and other configs into git then

I really don't understand. Does that mean I have to reinstall from the beginning?

Greetings to my awesome friends and group members, While installing FreeBSD, I foolishly enabled the moused daemon. As we all know, moused is entirely useless anyway! Later, when I regretted it and tried to disable it, both the onestop and stop options in the service command didn’t work. I manually set moused_enable to NO in the rc.conf file, but it still didn’t solve the issue. Then, it gives the message: cannot stop moused. Set moused_enable to YES in /etc/rc.conf or use onestop instead of stop. In the end, the mouse is still stubbornly present. I also checked the kernel modules but didn’t find anything named moused. I even looked into the usr/local/etc/rc.conf file, but there was nothing significant in there. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance! Have a great FreeBSD day! 😊

no, that means you should put your configs somewhere safe so that i you have to reinstall, you'll have them anyway

Did you try bsdconfig ?

oh yes i have a local git on my personal server I'm not worried about losing my configs I'm just upset about that damn moused :)

oh yes i have a local git on my personal server I'm not worried about losing my configs I'm just upset about that damn moused :)

Can you not curse a program when you don’t understand it?

Did you try bsdconfig ?

I tried very hard to remove it.

it says The mouse daemon is disabled but the mouse is still in front of my eyes.

Is it still running ? pgrep, top, ps aux ....

$ top | grep moused 682 root 1 20 0 14M 2468K select 3 0:00 0.00% moused

Moused is not totally useless as you called it with it you can use your mouse in a text environment which is very useful for copy pasting text

Hmm, did you reboot after doing changes to rc.conf ?

i think i should to kill the moused but that's PID is not fixed and they changes every times after reboot and ... :)

i think i should to kill the moused but that's PID is not fixed and they changes every times after reboot and ... :)

That is what pkill is for ... But that's a hack it's best to see where it is getting started from .

really thanks for your helps but how can i fix it?

the current pid of moused is stored in /var/run/moused.pid

yes, how?

You are in graphical environment?

really thanks for your helps but how can i fix it?

wdym?

sorry, what is this?

what do you mean

i should to disconnect the mouse from my PC?

what do you mean

i meantI mean, what does this help?

no, you can just cat /var/run/moused.pid and feed the output to kill or use pkill like said before

That is what pkill is for ... But that's a hack it's best to see where it is getting started from .

no, you can just cat /var/run/moused.pid and feed the output to kill or use pkill like said before

Maybe look at devd.conf ?

you could try asking on the freebsd-questions mailing list, many people involved in the active development of freebsd are there, they might know

ASFAIK USB mice auto start moused .

ok, thanks But you didn't say, Is this a bug? Do I need to report the problem?

devd is running moused after connecting your device. https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=182150

devd is running moused after connecting your device. https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=182150

can anyone explain what does it mean by updating to p2

FreeBSD "-p" suffixes indicate minor updates that are releases. When you run freebsd-update fetch, it always look up the minor revisions (such as 14.2-RELEASE-p2) unless you specify the -r flag for major releases. It also downloads the patches for your current system. https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/cutting-edge/#freebsdupdate-upgrade

i know that but did you noticed that i am on patch version 2 already? maybe check the freebsd-version -kru output i sent

i know that but did you noticed that i am on patch version 2 already? maybe check the freebsd-version -kru output i sent

You manually built kernel, remember?

it's not like they pushed another p2 patch again

No, so if you run freebsd-update install now the kernel will be "updated" to 14.2-RELEASE-p1.

it's not saying p1 and the kernel version string doesn't go in any debug file which are all it is updating

it's not saying p1 and the kernel version string doesn't go in any debug file which are all it is updating

You manually built kernel, remember?

cat /var/db/freebsd-update/tag cat /var/db/freebsd-update/tINDEX.present I'm curious what your index files says.

it's probably the issue. maybe he should clear its /var/db/freebsd-update after building from source to reinforce the indexing. But, IDK

I don't think I understand you.