Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 08:56:06 +0200 From: "Nikolaj Thygesen" <NT@MILESTONE.DK> To: "Joe Marcus Clarke" <marcus@marcuscom.com>, <jahnke@sonatabio.com> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Major 2.18 Issues... Message-ID: <9EE2AB3E13F8844AB35BF44F17268D71DE1515@Milestonee.milestone.dk> In-Reply-To: <1176498564.21770.32.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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Could the sore need of attention to the admin tools be the reason why I can't launch "gnome-system-monitor" and "baobab" as anyone else but root?? I get messages indicating "lack of access rights for /dev/mem" (writing from aging memory here). Nikolaj Thygesen -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Joe Marcus Clarke Sent: 13. april 2007 23:09 To: jahnke@sonatabio.com Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Major 2.18 Issues... On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 08:23 -0700, Frank Jahnke wrote: > I have had a great deal of trouble with the upgrade to 2.18. Printing > does not work reliably in Abiword or Gnumeric and I cannot access any of > the admin functions from within Gnome. You need to add either gnome_enable=3D"YES" or system_tools_backends_enable=3D"YES" to have a prayer with the Admin tools. Even then, they are sorely needing some work to make them play well with FreeBSD. >=20 > So I rebuilt the entire system, starting with the kernel and world. I > deleted Gnome by the method mentioned in the FAQ, and reinstalled it, > X11, and all of the gtk applications. Unfortunately the problems > remain. I am now on 2.18.1 and 6.2-R-p3; all ports are up-to-date. >=20 > I use CUPS to print from a print server, and cups-lpr has always worked > in the past. It does work on every application other than Abiword and > Gnumeric (that I have tested since the rebuild, at least). The print > preview is erratic -- it works sometimes and not others. I am unable to > set page margins in Gnumeric, and printing always crashes. I have no problems printing from Gnumeric or AbiWord. Print Preview also seems to work reliably for me. But I don't use CUPS. It looks like you're not using cups-lpr, but libgnomeprint is providing the CUPS printing support. Looks like there might be a problem with libgnomeprint and CUPS. If you get real crashes, you will have to follow the procedure at http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/bugging.html to get a useful backtrace. Joe --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc
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