From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Nov 10 3: 4:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mta02-svc.ntlworld.com (mta02-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F49B37B41E for ; Sat, 10 Nov 2001 03:04:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from pc1-stme2-0-cust102.cdf.cable.ntl.com ([62.252.56.102]) by mta02-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20011110110440.AFG29179.mta02-svc.ntlworld.com@pc1-stme2-0-cust102.cdf.cable.ntl.com>; Sat, 10 Nov 2001 11:04:40 +0000 Received: from lfarr (snorlax.bka.epcdirect.co.uk [192.168.10.200]) by pc1-stme2-0-cust102.cdf.cable.ntl.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id fAAB4d072778; Sat, 10 Nov 2001 11:04:39 GMT (envelope-from freebsd-net@epcdirect.co.uk) From: "Lawrence Farr" To: "'Matthew Dillon'" , "'Galen Sampson'" Cc: Subject: RE: KDE init [was RE: DCOP server problem...] Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 11:04:42 -0000 Message-ID: <006201c169d7$80752310$c80aa8c0@lfarr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.3311 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 In-Reply-To: <200111100718.fAA7I9522856@apollo.backplane.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Couldn't they have a ports version number appended to the end? It's a pain having to manually go through the list of dependencies and uninstall/rebuild. I went through similar problems with KDE2, and deleted every dependency, rebuilt, and it's peachy now. Lawrence Farr EPC Direct Limited > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG] On Behalf Of Matthew Dillon > Sent: 10 November 2001 07:18 > To: Galen Sampson > Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: KDE init [was RE: DCOP server problem...] > > > > : > :Hello all, > : I have seen quite a few posts in here about problems with > KDE. I personally > :still have the problem that KDE will show its splash screen, get to > :"initializing peripherals" and just sit there. I have > noticed a few PR's, > :etc., and KDE's bug database had at least on message > claiming this to be a > :problem with FreeBSD's threads. I have gone so far as to > remove every port > :that KDE depends on (except X) and rebuilt through the > ports, but I just > :haven't had any luck. I am running Xfree86 3.3.6 (built > from ports) over a > :year ago, and KDE2 cvsuped many times, but the latest has > been 7 days ago. Any > :known workarounds/fixes would be most appreciated. > : > :regards, > :Galen Sampson > > I'm having weird problems with kde2 as well.. it keeps screwing up > the fonts. It forgets about font families, changes my > defaults, and > does all sorts of other nasty things. > > I noticed that when I did a 'make' in the port for kde2, > that it didn't > bother updating older kde2-related libraries that were > already installed > but out of date, so it was running the kde2 desktop > binaries against > older shared libraries. It took a while to go through > all the ports > and deinstall them and now I am rebuilding the whole > thing from scratch > again. Maybe it will work better with all the shared > libs synced up. > > I've actually noticed this with ports before... there > needs to be a > make target to tell ports to upgrade everything that is > out of date or > something like that. I dunno. > > -Matt > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message