From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 16 12:47:31 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F86316A407 for ; Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:47:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Received: from creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (creme-brulee.marcuscom.com [24.172.16.118]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04D1513C44C for ; Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:47:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Received: from [10.2.1.218] (vpn-client-218.marcuscom.com [10.2.1.218]) by creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id l3GCldrM067932; Mon, 16 Apr 2007 08:47:40 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Message-ID: <46237062.802@marcuscom.com> Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 08:47:30 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Macintosh/20070221) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nikolaj Thygesen References: <9EE2AB3E13F8844AB35BF44F17268D71DE1515@Milestonee.milestone.dk> In-Reply-To: <9EE2AB3E13F8844AB35BF44F17268D71DE1515@Milestonee.milestone.dk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.1.8 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.8 (2007-02-13) on creme-brulee.marcuscom.com Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org, jahnke@sonatabio.com Subject: Re: Major 2.18 Issues... X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:47:31 -0000 Nikolaj Thygesen wrote: > 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). No. Both work just fine on FreeBSD. What are your perms on /dev/mem? They should be 0640 root:kmem. That is vital since libgtop is setgid kmem, and must be able to read /dev/mem. Joe > > 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="YES" or > system_tools_backends_enable="YES" to have a prayer with the Admin > tools. Even then, they are sorely needing some work to make them play > well with FreeBSD. > >> 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. >> >> 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 > -- PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc