From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 19 7:27: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from po3.wam.umd.edu (po3.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.165]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A180E37BDB8 for ; Fri, 19 May 2000 07:26:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from culverk@wam.umd.edu) Received: from rac6.wam.umd.edu (root@rac6.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.146]) by po3.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA14256; Fri, 19 May 2000 10:26:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rac6.wam.umd.edu (sendmail@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rac6.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA07447; Fri, 19 May 2000 10:26:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (culverk@localhost) by rac6.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA07440; Fri, 19 May 2000 10:26:54 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: rac6.wam.umd.edu: culverk owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 10:26:54 -0400 (EDT) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver To: Nils Holland Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: KDE 2 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've had some problems with that, although they are different from yours. I can't load jpegs of any kind, even though I used the proper jpeg libraries. Also, some menus won't appear sometimes. I think this is probably just because it's still beta software. ================================================================= | Kenneth Culver | FreeBSD: The best OS around. | | Unix Systems Administrator | ICQ #: 24767726 | | and student at The | AIM: muythaibxr | | The University of Maryland, | Website: (Under Construction) | | College Park. | http://www.wam.umd.edu/~culverk/| ================================================================= On Fri, 19 May 2000, Nils Holland wrote: > 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. > > 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