From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 22 14:00:48 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D54616A4DA for ; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 14:00:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: from gregale.emea.mci.com (gregale.wcom.co.uk [193.131.254.138]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E65FC43D1D for ; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 14:00:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from philip.payne@uk.mci.com) Received: from breen.emea.mci.com ([166.59.191.248] helo=morpheus.emea.mci.com) by gregale.emea.mci.com with esmtp (Exim 4.42) id 1CA7f9-0005rJ-1q; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 14:00:03 +0000 Received: from breen.emea.mci.com ([166.59.191.248]) by morpheus.emea.mci.com with esmtp (Exim 4.42) id 1CA7f7-00041O-Ej; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 14:00:01 +0000 Received: from gblon1exch06.uk.mcilink.com ([170.127.79.25]) by breen.emea.mci.com with esmtp (Exim 4.42) id 1CA7f4-0005P5-CA; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 13:59:58 +0000 Received: by gblon1exch06.uk.mcilink.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 15:00:00 +0100 Message-ID: From: Philip Payne To: Emanuel Strobl , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 14:59:35 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-MCI-US-Signature: 53ddb5799500b97bd2f48fcec30a2864 X-MCI-EMEA-Spam-Score: -98.5 (---------------------------------------------------) X-MCI-EMEA-Signature: df3fdb69a6ee506ecb23e1d600c7e99a Subject: RE: Portinstall problem (config.guess not found) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 14:00:49 -0000 > > I just rebuilt the machine as the problem was doing my > head-in. Freebsd > > 5.3-beta5. Basically, X-Developer distro with KDE installed > as desktop. > > > > The first port I try to to install is generally CVSUP. I get the > > "config.guess not found" error straight away... as below. > > > > I am not sure how to proceed. I'm tempted to fall back to > 4-Stable which > > was working fine. Switching to FreeBSD-5 has been a > nightmare. I just > > wanted to try PF & Fwbuilder2 as a firewall. > > > > There doesn't seem to be a lot of posts on the list with > this problem so > > I'm assuming its a problem specific to me... but weird. > > It's not specific to you, let me guess, you're using konsole from KDE? > And you do a 'su'? Try to 'su -' and everything is fine again. > Haven't had the time yet to figure out if it's a KDE problem > or anything else > but I reported this one too and got no answer. Didn't use Konsole but I am using KDE. It appears to be a problem in aterm & xterm, but strangely not Eterm. I do use "su" rather than "su -" I'm really just a networky person rather than unix sysadmin so its way over my head as to what the problem is. I'm just happy there's a workaround rather than having a system I can't update. I'm happy to assist where possible in identifying what the issue is but wouldn't have the skill to do it myself. Cheers, Phil.