From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Oct 14 23: 6:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (law2-f157.hotmail.com [216.32.181.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 68BB114D92 for ; Thu, 14 Oct 1999 23:06:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from redhat_list@hotmail.com) Received: (qmail 86322 invoked by uid 0); 15 Oct 1999 06:06:38 -0000 Message-ID: <19991015060638.86321.qmail@hotmail.com> Received: from 203.102.191.168 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Thu, 14 Oct 1999 23:06:35 PDT X-Originating-IP: [203.102.191.168] From: "Greg W" To: onemo@jps.net Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [MY] Broken X and window managers Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 06:06:35 GMT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi guys well I have re installed the whole system, and I am back to the same spot with the same thing happening I do have an error that I have seen at some other time, when I type just kfm or kde I see an error /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1 Shared object "libjpeg.so.9" not found libjpeg.so.9 has turned up in other errors very early in the piece as well, so maybe I have a damaged package here? what do you all think ? I am going to try and investigate this and find what .tar.gz file it comes in, then can try downloading and manually unpacking it .... I will await some further advice before chopping into things too much, in case its a common thing The X server is running, and was before, I have all the KDE menus (similar to ifw95 menu's) only thing is when you click on them nothing opens ie click the file manager = nothing , click console = nothing, but all the menus are there and navigateable.....make sense ? This is killing me..... There must be a common packeage between the different desktops, and without it they wont operate properly....any clue ? sheesh I am rambling on now Greg >From: Michael Oski >Greg W wrote: > > > I suspect much more sinister error here, like a corrupted binary or > > something, I had localhost, but did not have in profile etc > > > > I really thank you guys for tying to help, but its got the better of me, >yep > > I have started a fresh install, I choose kernel + X + all x libs/bin > > > > Will see what happens, some may say I dont have the patience to become >an > > Xpert, but this was going beyond the joke for me > > > > Will report my findings :-) who knows, I may be asking for a new CD ! > > > > I dont know how many RH users are reading this, but with 3.3 is X >usually as > > staright forward as RH (its knocked as being difficult to set x up on by > > some, however its always been relatively painless irrespective of wm or > > desktop) > > > > C ya ! > >Hehe, actually, you ARE on the road to becoming an expert. Remember, we >humans >learn best through failure! > >As for RH and the ease of installation, I've used FreeBSD and various Linux >distributions and they're all pretty much the same. I've actually had more >difficulty with the Linux stuff than the BSD personally, but then again I >got >used to BSD first. > >Hang in there.... You'll get it right, then you can help out the next >person >with troubles! > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message