From owner-freebsd-ports Fri May 18 3:23:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from heinz.jollem.com (c104187.upc-c.chello.nl [212.187.104.187]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A216537B424; Fri, 18 May 2001 03:23:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ernst@heinz.jollem.com) Received: (from ernst@localhost) by heinz.jollem.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f4IALTa01287; Fri, 18 May 2001 12:21:29 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ernst) Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 12:21:29 +0200 From: Ernst de Haan To: Joe Clarke Cc: ernst@heinz.jollem.com, will@freebsd.org, FreeBSD Ports Mailing List Subject: Re: PR-27056 Message-ID: <20010518122129.A1258@c187104187.telekabel.chello.nl> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from marcus@miami.edu on Thu, May 17, 2001 at 06:15:06PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Joe, Joe Clarke wrote: > In order to prevent kscd from crashing at startup, add a symlink in /dev > that points your CD-ROM device to /dev/cdrom. For example, if you use an > ATAPI CD: > > ln -s /dev/acd0c /dev/cdrom Yeah, I found that out, see the audit trail. I'm just wondering how new users can be warned about this in advance. If someone else tries installing kde2 from ports, and then runs kscd, it will core dump. This should not be the case. The user should either be notified after installing kde2 or kscd, or the program should just display a warning or something. Ernst -- Ernst de Haan Java Architect Jollem Information Technology "Come to me all who are weary and burdened and I will give you rest" -- Jesus Christ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message