From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Nov 12 13:32:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from volatile.chemikals.org (ci391991-a.grnvle1.sc.home.com [24.37.154.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D18D337B405 for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2001 13:32:41 -0800 (PST) Received: (from morganw@localhost) by volatile.chemikals.org (8.11.5/8.11.5) id fACLWNk39305; Mon, 12 Nov 2001 16:32:23 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from morganw) Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 16:32:23 -0500 (EST) From: Wesley Morgan To: Michael Lucas Cc: Matthew Dillon , Galen Sampson , Subject: Re: KDE init [was RE: DCOP server problem...] In-Reply-To: <20011112093211.A28224@blackhelicopters.org> Message-ID: <20011112163059.W39202-100000@volatile.chemikals.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > -- _ __ ___ ____ ___ ___ ___ Wesley N Morgan _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ morganw@chemikals.org _ __ | _ \._ \ |) | FreeBSD: The Power To Serve _ |___/___/___/ 6bone: 3ffe:1ce3:7::b4ff:fe53:c297 Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message