Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 11:04:42 -0000 From: "Lawrence Farr" <freebsd-net@epcdirect.co.uk> To: "'Matthew Dillon'" <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, "'Galen Sampson'" <galen_sampson@yahoo.com> Cc: <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: KDE init [was RE: DCOP server problem...] Message-ID: <006201c169d7$80752310$c80aa8c0@lfarr> In-Reply-To: <200111100718.fAA7I9522856@apollo.backplane.com>
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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 but out of date, so it was running the kde2 desktop 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
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