From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 18 00:00:48 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA3A71065673 for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:00:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chrisa@uvic.ca) Received: from castle.comp.uvic.ca (castle.comp.uvic.ca [142.104.5.97]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBAF88FC16 for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:00:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chrisa@uvic.ca) Received: from wm3.uvic.ca (camel.comp.uvic.ca [142.104.148.215]) by castle.comp.uvic.ca (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id mAI00mfh5869624 for ; Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:00:48 -0800 Received: from 142.104.193.193 (proxying for 24.68.249.148) (SquirrelMail authenticated user chrisa) by wm3.uvic.ca with HTTP; Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:00:48 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <54949.142.104.193.193.1226966448.squirrel@wm3.uvic.ca> In-Reply-To: <20081117054349.GX81783@hoeg.nl> References: <200811161150196091110@Gmail.com> <200811162022198288506@Gmail.com> <790a9fff0811160937j3b94ac26q251f2bc2abc9b953@mail.gmail.com> <54489.142.104.193.193.1226872988.squirrel@wm3.uvic.ca> <20081117054349.GX81783@hoeg.nl> Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:00:48 -0800 (PST) From: chrisa@uvic.ca To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.9a MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-UVic-Virus-Scanned: OK - Passed virus scan by Sophos (sophie) on castle X-UVic-Spam-Scan: castle.comp.uvic.ca Not_scanned_NOT_SA_HOST X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 142.104.5.29 Subject: Re: My GNOME2 cannot work! X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:00:49 -0000 > * chrisa@uvic.ca wrote: >> I have the same problem with my gnome install. I'm running 7.0-RELEASE >> #0 >> with packages from 7-stable, and the same thing is happening. And the >> permissions for /var/tmp are set correctly: when I look in /var/tmp >> after >> the failure, it has created the file: it just claims that it can't lock >> it. > > Be sure to run FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE (RELENG_7), not 7.0-RELEASE. As > mentioned in previous emails, be sure to run the packages on the > operating system version they have been compiled for. > > -- > Ed Schouten > WWW: http://80386.nl/ > For some reason, I thought that packages for any version of 7 would work on any other version of 7, so I thought that getting packages from 7-stable would be a good way to get up-to-date packages instead of nearly year-old packages from 7.0-release. Oh well. I installed gnome from ports and it works fine, so you were right about the packages. Thanks, Chris A