Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 08:47:30 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Nikolaj Thygesen <NT@MILESTONE.DK> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org, jahnke@sonatabio.com Subject: Re: Major 2.18 Issues... Message-ID: <46237062.802@marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <9EE2AB3E13F8844AB35BF44F17268D71DE1515@Milestonee.milestone.dk> References: <9EE2AB3E13F8844AB35BF44F17268D71DE1515@Milestonee.milestone.dk>
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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
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