Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 16:32:23 -0500 (EST) From: Wesley Morgan <morganw@chemikals.org> To: Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> Cc: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, Galen Sampson <galen_sampson@yahoo.com>, <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: KDE init [was RE: DCOP server problem...] Message-ID: <20011112163059.W39202-100000@volatile.chemikals.org> In-Reply-To: <20011112093211.A28224@blackhelicopters.org>
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The next time KDE screws up your fonts or starts acting screwy, go into
/tmp and rm -rf all the old DCOP / KDE stuff. That usually fixes it for me
(I used to use a mfs /tmp, but that seems to be broken in -current).
On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Michael Lucas wrote:
> Matt,
>
> Check out /usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade. Automatic port & port
> dependency upgrading, fully recursive.
>
> Took me about thirty minutes to set up. My desktop is three years old
> and has been manually upgraded, patched, etc, repeatedly. And
> portupgrade upgraded every port to the latest version, cleaned up all
> sorts of old crap, etc. Highly recommended.
>
> Tutorial coming to onlamp.com RSN (I believe later this month).
>
> On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 11:18:09PM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> >
> > :
> > :Hello all,
> > : I have seen quite a few posts in here about problems with KDE. I personally
> > :still have the problem that KDE will show its splash screen, get to
> > :"initializing peripherals" and just sit there. I have noticed a few PR's,
> > :etc., and KDE's bug database had at least on message claiming this to be a
> > :problem with FreeBSD's threads. I have gone so far as to remove every port
> > :that KDE depends on (except X) and rebuilt through the ports, but I just
> > :haven't had any luck. I am running Xfree86 3.3.6 (built from ports) over a
> > :year ago, and KDE2 cvsuped many times, but the latest has been 7 days ago. Any
> > :known workarounds/fixes would be most appreciated.
> > :
> > :regards,
> > :Galen Sampson
> >
> > I'm having weird problems with kde2 as well.. it keeps screwing up
> > the fonts. It forgets about font families, changes my defaults, and
> > does all sorts of other nasty things.
> >
> > I noticed that when I did a 'make' in the port for kde2, that it didn't
> > bother updating older kde2-related libraries that were already installed
> > but out of date, so it was running the kde2 desktop binaries against
> > older shared libraries. It took a while to go through all the ports
> > and deinstall them and now I am rebuilding the whole thing from scratch
> > again. Maybe it will work better with all the shared libs synced up.
> >
> > I've actually noticed this with ports before... there needs to be a
> > make target to tell ports to upgrade everything that is out of date or
> > something like that. I dunno.
> >
> > -Matt
> >
> >
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