From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 2 21:48:56 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59D57106567E for ; Thu, 2 Apr 2009 21:48:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rock_on_the_web@comcen.com.au) Received: from angel.comcen.com.au (angel.comcen.com.au [203.23.236.69]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2179E8FC1A for ; Thu, 2 Apr 2009 21:48:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rock_on_the_web@comcen.com.au) Received: from [192.168.0.189] (unknown [202.172.126.254]) by angel.comcen.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 064C75C2EDCE; Fri, 3 Apr 2009 08:48:52 +1100 (EST) From: Da Rock To: rasz In-Reply-To: <49D4AC76.1060002@gmail.com> References: <1238673434.44542.104.camel@laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au> <49D4AC76.1060002@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 03 Apr 2009 07:48:49 +1000 Message-Id: <1238708929.44542.106.camel@laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.24.5 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Ports options not coming up X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2009 21:48:57 -0000 On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 14:15 +0200, rasz wrote: > Da Rock wrote: > > I'd to debug this, but I'm not even sure where to start. On just one > > system since some recent updates I have no options screens coming up for > > ports. I get a blue screen and then nothing; stdout says options > > unchanged. > > > > It is a vm if that means anything? > > > > Cheers > > > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > > if i understand you correctly, and this is the same thing, i have had > this happen when > building ports in a terminal emulator of sorts, particularly the xfce4 > one (and maybe kde4 konsole) > when the actual window is too small (e.g. in number of lines). i would > see the blue screen for a bit and then > options unchanged. it doesn't happen if at all if i keep the window a > good size, but i don't know about VM. You know, I followed the vm track but I never even considered the terminal! Duh! :) Cheers