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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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