Date: 22 Feb 2003 02:47:03 -0500 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: "P.U.Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de> Cc: freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree86 and gnome2 pains Message-ID: <1045900023.95769.23.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <20030222080742.V254@small.pukruppa.de>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Sat, 2003-02-22 at 02:38, P. U. Kruppa wrote: > Hi! > > Please note: these are no vital problems, I am just trying things > on my private (4.8-PRERELEASE) machine. > > 1) To freshly install XFree86-4 and gnome2 I completely deinstalled > all gnome2 and XFree86 packages and removed all kinds of X11/ > or X11R6/ directories. > 2) # pkgdb -F ran cleanly without any complaints > Then one should be able to run > 3) # portinstall -R XFree86 (and configure XF86Config) and > 4) # portinstall -R gnome2 (and put gnome-session in one's > xinitrc) > > All this does not work for me, neither XFree86-4 nor gnome2 will > install cleanly this way. > The problems seem to originate from these packages > - imake > - freetype > - gstreamer (and plugins?) > - fontconfig > > I also tried to use some binaries from my 4.7-RELEASE, but > the best I can get is the startup gnome splash screen - then > X crashes. > > In case someone is interested I can reproduce this (or I will > wait for binaries). Without actual errors, it's impossible to troubleshoot. However, a simple: # cd /usr/ports/x11/gnome2 # make install clean Worked for me. Joe > > > Regards, > > Uli. > > > > +-----------------------------------+ > | Peter Ulrich Kruppa | > | - Wuppertal - | > | Germany | > +-----------------------------------+ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message -- PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA+Vyr3b2iPiv4Uz4cRAgztAJoD8CJZS5j71wrWhuSccbk+z73fwQCfUiA8 0Wk55aS5Yy+oulqh+uX/3EY= =KNjg -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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