Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 12:03:19 +0200 From: Martin Krzysiak <mak@irb.cs.uni-dortmund.de> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: 4.3-20010812-STABLE: xsm coredump ... and some experiences of a newbie Message-ID: <01081412031902.23634@lmr>
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Hello all,
yesterday I installed a fresh snapshot from releng4-ftp-server.
Everything worked fine until I wanted to login using X.
First a strange-designed dialog box appeared.
I've never seen it before in my life, but now I think
it's the xsm (I hope I'm right).
After making a user account there is no default .xsession
file and after few clicks on the strange dialog-box
(mentioned above) it crashes with coredump (SIGSEGV)
and lets the whole server restart again.
Now after I got the idea to create my own .xsession file
it works fine.
That was my second installation in the first one (4.3-STABLE)
there wasn't such behavior.
Now a few remarks after these 2 installations:
1) Anyone knows how to setup the hostname at installation
time? It's not fair to call me Amnesiac when there is no
option to adjust it! :P
2) When installing from a snapshot and a package is not
available in the package-tree, it means you have to
take the old one from latest STABLE?
3) I'm missing a README how to make a ISO-image from
a 4GB snapshot... *lol* (Please no stupid answers here!
You know exactly what I mean!). A list of packages which
SHOULD be included when making a snapshot would
help VERY VERY much!
4) I don't want to change any concepts, but I'm always
installing bash for my user, but the .bashrc is not being
loaded (default). I added a line to /etc/profiles to
force loading of ~/.bashrc (when bash is the shell,
of course). It works, but is it the right place for this?
5) I know there is /stand/sysinstall, but I would prefer to
have a reasonable fdisk.
6) I don't like the FreeBSD boot-loader WRITING TO MY
BOOT-SECTOR AGAIN AND AGAIN (each time
I start my computer) ! Any way to stop it?
(Don't come up with stupid responses to remove it
or to install lilo!)
It's only a remark that you shouldn't write so often
on the most sensitive part of the harddisk!
7) I'm really missing ConTeXt (or how was it written??).
It's a great package!
8) Security question:
I would like to know, which CRITICAL things can a user
do, who is member of the group 'wheel' ?
(I mean... without 'su root' of course)
9) Is a sequence of upgrading, downgrading, deinstalling
and installing packages safe or does it leave trash on
one's hard disk?
10) Perhaps you will laugh, but I changed to FreeBSD, because:
- Linux crashed my box every day
- the TV-adapter works! YAY!
In general, FreeBSD is GREAT!
Keep the good work guys!
Martin
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