Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 17:04:48 +0300 From: Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg> To: Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl> Cc: "Andrew M. Miklic" <miklic@udlkern.fc.hp.com>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GDM Message-ID: <20001016170448.C21884@ringwraith.office1.bg> In-Reply-To: <20001016155438.E58406@pcwin002.win.tue.nl>; from stijn@win.tue.nl on Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 03:54:38PM %2B0200 References: <39EB060A.B4E87FD5@udlkern.fc.hp.com> <20001016155438.E58406@pcwin002.win.tue.nl>
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On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 03:54:38PM +0200, Stijn Hoop wrote: [snip] > > P.S. I tried installing the pre-compiled binary version included with > > the 4.1 package collection, but it hung sysinstall during pkg_add, so I > > built directly from the ports collection (10/15/00, at about 2:15 > > p.m.)... > > Strange... No clue about this. This is probably due to the fact that gdm is an 'interactive' package/port - it displays a dialog asking confirmation before the install. sysinstall has some problems with interactive packages, as has been discussed on several of the mailing lists lately - it runs the 'make install', either redirecting its output to another console (during a first-time install), or not at all; and even if the output goes to another console, it does not really allow the user to give any input. Thus, any confirmations during a package install cause sysinstall to hang, waiting for 'dialog' to finish, which it won't. Unfortunately, switching to another VT and killing the dialog process will not work - it exits with a non-zero exit code, thus making the install script think you've answered 'no' to the 'are you sure' question. G'luck, Peter -- .siht ekil ti gnidaer eb d'uoy ,werbeH ni erew ecnetnes siht fI To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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