From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Jul 14 19:08:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA25734 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Tue, 14 Jul 1998 19:08:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from peloton.physics.montana.edu (peloton.physics.montana.edu [153.90.192.177]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA25716 for ; Tue, 14 Jul 1998 19:08:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu) Received: from localhost (brett@localhost) by peloton.physics.montana.edu (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id UAA08456; Tue, 14 Jul 1998 20:08:06 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu) Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 20:08:06 -0600 (MDT) From: Brett Taylor To: Brandon Stewart cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: window maker install In-Reply-To: <35ABBDB2.BA494A6B@vt.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, > On the windowmaker port, when making install, it pops up about five > windows which have no close buttons, and are usually black, but > sometimes have a pattern of a messy desk. After I kill all of these > (there is nothing I can do with them anyway), there are several > file-selection dialog windows. When I just hit cancel on all of these, > it stops, saying that it cannot make directories (see below). A few people have seen this (me included) - others have not. It's weird - it's clearly something happening w/ the WindowMaker use of mkdirhier but I haven't figured out WHAT is going on. Brian Handy, the maintainer, also doesn't know what's going on and I've had him sitting at my machine. There are a couple of work arounds: - use the package - install on the console (NOT in X) Brett *********************************************************** Brett Taylor brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu http://peloton.physics.montana.edu/brett/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message