From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 20 16:03:11 2008 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 EC9531065679 for ; Sat, 20 Sep 2008 16:03:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net) Received: from mail.rachie.is-a-geek.net (rachie.is-a-geek.net [66.230.99.27]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8ED08FC28 for ; Sat, 20 Sep 2008 16:03:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net) Received: from localhost (mail.rachie.is-a-geek.net [192.168.2.101]) by mail.rachie.is-a-geek.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id F17BDAFBC03; Sat, 20 Sep 2008 08:03:10 -0800 (AKDT) From: Mel To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 18:03:09 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <20080917151221.GA67212@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> <20080918115454.GA32644@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20080918115454.GA32644@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200809201803.09900.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> Cc: Anton Shterenlikht Subject: Re: epiphany stalls on dbus-launch? 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: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 16:03:12 -0000 On Thursday 18 September 2008 13:54:54 Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 04:12:22PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > > I've built ports/www/epiphany on FBSD-6.3-stable on Alpha. > > On launch epiphany never opens the graphical window. > > ps shows: > > > > 67097 p5 I 0:01.21 epiphany > > 67098 p5 I 0:00.05 dbus-launch --autolaunch > > 76514f0130361463d40d7f1348d11bf3 --binary-syn 67101 p5 I 0:00.00 > > dbus-launch --autolaunch 76514f0130361463d40d7f1348d11bf3 --binary-syn > > > > If I kill either dbus-launch, epiphany exits with an error. > > > > I wonder if the problem is in dbus, and not in epiphany. > > Anybody has seen this problem. > > just to add, I cannot even get epiphany --help or > epiphany --version. It just stalls with 2 dbus-launch > processes. Alpha support has been dropped in 7.x. Officially, the ports tree should still support it (or add BROKEN_FOR_ARCH if it can't/won't be fixed). The best way to handle your case, is to use send-pr(1) for the port in question, so that the maintainer is aware and then it's up to him/her how to handle it. -- Mel Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules and never get to the software part.