Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:29:14 +0000 From: Mike Clarke <jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Further problems with gimp-help Message-ID: <200810292229.14412.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk>
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Last week I posted here about a problem with gimp-help after upgrading to gimp-2.6.1,2. Despite gimp-help-2.4.1 being installed, my attempts to access help in gimp produced the following messages: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The GIMP user manual is not installed on your computer. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- When I changed the preferences to use online help I got the following error message: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Could not open 'http://docs.gimp.org/2.6/en/gimp-help.xml' for reading: Operation not supported Perhaps you are missing GIO backends and need to install GVFS? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- In fact gimp wouldn't open any file via http, and gio-fam-backend-2.16.5 and gvfs-0.2.5 were installed. Following suggestions from Jan Henrik Sylvester I installed www/webkit-gtk2 but still had the same problem. I subsequently discovered that if I started gimp from a terminal window instead of from the KDE menu I could access the local help files with no problem but still couldn't use the online help. Unfortunately I don't know if this would have worked before installing webkit-gtk2. At this stage I was starting to wonder if I might have missed some crucial item in ports/UPDATING at some stage in the past and might have some dependency issues so I used a spare slice to set up a new test system. I created the new system by copying all the partitions from my working system, editing fstab to change device names and then running pkg_deinstall -af to remove all packages. Then I installed enough ports to run X and twm before attempting to install gimp. This time I got lots of the following warning messages while building gimp-help: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- I/O error : Attempt to load network entity http://www.docbook.org/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd xml/es.xml:2: warning: failed to load external entity "http://www.docbook.org/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd" //OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN" "http://www.docbook.org/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd" ----------------------------------------------------------------------- These didn't stop gimp-help from building and installing but, needless to say, gimp produced the usual errors about not having the user manual installed. The new version of gimp couldn't open any file via http either. Although I've got the workaround of starting gimp from a terminal window I'm left with 3 mysteries which I'd like to solve if possible: 1) Why does gimp, on both my original system and the new build, fail to open files via http? 2) Why does gimp-help not work when gimp is started from the KDE menu but does work OK when gimp is started from a terminal window? 3) Why does make fail to build gimp-help correctly in the new system on the spare slice but was able to build it OK on the original system. -- Mike Clarke
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