From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Sep 1 18:30:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from c1828785-a.saltlk1.ut.home.com (c1828785-a.saltlk1.ut.home.com [24.20.97.231]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0B9637B40B for ; Sat, 1 Sep 2001 18:30:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from there (xwfwne@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by c1828785-a.saltlk1.ut.home.com (8.11.6/8.11.5) with SMTP id f821Upl06688 for ; Sat, 1 Sep 2001 19:30:51 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from mupi@mknet.org) Message-Id: <200109020130.f821Upl06688@c1828785-a.saltlk1.ut.home.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Mike Porter To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Staroffice woes on 4.4 RC --SOLVED!! Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2001 19:30:51 -0600 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG (posting the solution here so it can go into the archives on the off chance that somone else in the future might actually search the archives before posting and find the answer to his question....) It turns out that I had inadvertantly disabled the /proc mountpoint in /etc/fstab. The staroffice binaries REQUIRE (at least, the installation binaries require; I'm in no mood to tinker now and find out if the actual program binaries crash without /proc) procfs in the kernel, and a mounted /proc, or you will fail. Thanks to Martin Blapp, the port maintainer for pointing me in the right direction on this. ktrace/kdump showed me exactly where the problem was occurring, and allowed me to see (more or less) what was going on..... mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message