From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 19 6: 9:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in (theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in [144.16.71.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C7A4537B588 for ; Fri, 19 May 2000 06:09:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in) Received: (qmail 6295 invoked from network); 19 May 2000 13:09:07 -0000 Received: from sys3.physics.iisc.ernet.in (144.16.71.27) by theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in with SMTP; 19 May 2000 13:09:07 -0000 Received: (qmail 6215 invoked by uid 211); 19 May 2000 13:09:02 -0000 Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 18:39:02 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Nils Holland Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: KDE 2 Message-ID: <20000519183901.C5984@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Mail-Followup-To: Nils Holland , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from nils@nightcastleproductions.org on Fri, May 19, 2000 at 03:04:10PM +0200 X-Operating-System: Linux 2.0.31 i486 X-Question: Do you enjoy reading pointless headers? Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Nils Holland said on May 19, 2000 at 15:04:10: > In the current ports collection in the directory /usr/ports/x11/kde2 there > is a port of KDE 1.90 (pre2) available. After having deinstalled my old > KDE (pkg_delete -f ) I decided to try out this > version. Compilation and installation all ran well, but now there are some > problems. I'd basically like to know if anybody's already tried out this > port and if it works for them or if they are also getting problems. > Haven't tried the KDE2 port, but on a 3.4 system, exactly the two programs you mention (kdewizard and konqueror) crashed with a segv. In the case of konqueror, the program which actually crashed was kdeinit. I compiled and installed from a cvsup'd kde tree. I intend to try again sometime, with debugging symbols and all... Rahul. > Here's the problem I have noticed on my FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE system: > > - An attempt to start the KDE Configuration Wizard fails. Instead, the KDE > Crash handler appears on the screen, telling me that the Configuration > Wizard had crashed with Signal 11 (SIGSERV). The same happens when trying > to start the rather important application "konqueror". Otherwise the KDE > seems to run fine. > > I know that the version I have installed is to be regarded as unstable, > but I'd like to know if these bugs are really there in this version and I > can't do anything about it, or if I've probably done something wrong > that's causing these problems. > > So, any information on experiences with the kde2-port are welcome. > > Greetings, > Nils > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message