From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 10 11:25:04 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA07957 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 10 Oct 1996 11:25:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA07952 for ; Thu, 10 Oct 1996 11:25:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id LAA00841; Thu, 10 Oct 1996 11:24:28 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 11:24:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Pedro Alexandre Vapi cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Q: pkg_manage In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 9 Oct 1996, Pedro Alexandre Vapi wrote: > > > I have always used pkg_manage to add/remove packages. It never > > > gave no problem to me till now... > > > Now I can add a package, but when i remove it, the program > > > breaks, and send a core. Is it a memory error?? I don't belive because it > > > never happened to me before. > > > > How are you 'removing' packages? Using pkg_delete? > > Well, i supose yes, because pkg_manage is (i think) a kind of script that > call pkg_delete... I am not sure. It's the other way around. Use pkg_delete so that all the flags get added properly. > > It may be that your version of X doesn't appreciate being run from > > /etc/ttys. I'm running the beta Mach64 X server and have to run xdm from > > /etc/rc.local for it to work properly. > > It's a good idea, but it isn't a good way to solve a problem... i would > like to _know why_ it is happening! And it can be solved in the way to be > run using only /etc/ttys. I honestly don't know. You'd have to chat with the X people on that one. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major