Re: problem starting gnome 2.12.2

2006-04-09 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 4/9/06, Johannes Lächele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried uninstalling the xfixes-proto-4.0 and the composite-proto-03 packages and installing the older ones instead, after that I rebuilt the xorg-server but I still get the same errors after running startx. If you've installed

Re: problem starting gnome 2.12.2

2006-04-07 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 4/7/06, Randy McMurchy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 08:08 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: I believe the patch should be applied with `patch -Np1', but you might need -Np0. Anyway, please let me know if this helps your situation. Hour by hour I'm liking Bruce's original

Re: problem starting gnome 2.12.2

2006-04-07 Thread Randy McMurchy
On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 08:41 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: The solution is that we need to stick with the packages the developers say are for Xorg-7.0 unless there is a security flaw or serious bug release made. Bumping up the major version from fixesproto-3.0.2 to fixesproto-4.0 without

Re: problem starting gnome 2.12.2

2006-04-07 Thread Ag Hatzim
Dan Nicholson([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 08:41:05AM -0700: On 4/7/06, Randy McMurchy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 08:08 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: The problem is this: this newly released tarballs are slated for Xorg 7.1. Read this post by the developer of

Re: problem starting gnome 2.12.2

2006-04-07 Thread Randy McMurchy
On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 19:02 +0300, Ag Hatzim wrote: Also Dan i think it's good idea for every module to has its own page and with the right order. A single page is getting unreadable and in my humble opinion might be confusing. I must admit to not looking into the Xorg 7.0 stuff yet. I just

Re: problem starting gnome 2.12.2

2006-04-07 Thread Ag Hatzim
Randy McMurchy([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 11:09:14AM -0500: So, that said, how many modules are you speaking of Ag? Lets see,and if we go with the right order and without to count the Mesa/libdrm must be 10,the following. proto util lib xbitmaps app data font luit xorg-server

Re: problem starting gnome 2.12.2

2006-04-07 Thread Randy McMurchy
On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 19:33 +0300, Ag Hatzim wrote: I also want to object to pull out the Xorg-7 from the book. Is exactly the same code with 6.9.0. What we can do,is to publish an official list with the right versions and stick with them,thus will make the support more easily. Pulling out

BLFS-new release? [Was Re: problem starting gnome 2.12.2]

2006-04-07 Thread Ag Hatzim
Randy McMurchy([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 11:40:46AM -0500: On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 19:33 +0300, Ag Hatzim wrote: Pulling out 7.0 would only be for the special case of doing a release here shortly. Everyone agrees (or, rephrasing, there have been many reports) that the 7.0 build

Re: problem starting gnome 2.12.2

2006-04-07 Thread DJ Lucas
Randy McMurchy wrote: On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 19:33 +0300, Ag Hatzim wrote: Pulling out 7.0 would only be for the special case of doing a release here shortly. Everyone agrees (or, rephrasing, there have been many reports) that the 7.0 build instructions are confusing and need to be broken up. If

problem starting gnome 2.12.2

2006-04-06 Thread Johannes Lächele
Hi Everyone I have completed building GNOME 2.12.2 without any errors (which is quite surprising for me :-) but after running startx I get 2 Problems: 1. Fonts: I can see the fancy new splash-screen for about 2 seconds before X.org shuts down because it couldnt find any Fonts in

Re: problem starting gnome 2.12.2

2006-04-06 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 4/6/06, Johannes Lächele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Fonts: I can see the fancy new splash-screen for about 2 seconds before X.org shuts down because it couldnt find any Fonts in dir/usr/share/fonts/dir which is the standard-dir I can solve this problem with adding an extra font dir in

Re: problem starting gnome 2.12.2

2006-04-06 Thread Johannes Lächele
ln -svn $XORG_PREFIX/lib/X11/fonts/OTF /usr/share/fonts/X11-OTF ln -svn $XORG_PREFIX/lib/X11/fonts/TTF /usr/share/fonts/X11/TTF where XORG_PREFIX obviously is /usr in your case. Now, get that dir out of /etc/fonts/fonts.conf! There's a lot of crappy fonts that you don't want fontconfig to

Re: problem starting gnome 2.12.2

2006-04-06 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 4/6/06, Johannes Lächele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry my fault, I didn't mention that before building GNOME I tested X using twm and everything worked fine so I'm sure its something wrong with my installation of GNOME. Is there any info in /var/log/Xorg.0.log about the crash? Which

Re: problem starting gnome 2.12.2

2006-04-06 Thread Johannes Lächele
Is there any info in /var/log/Xorg.0.log about the crash? Which program is it bombing on in the splash screen (nautilus, gnome-panel, etc.)? I looked through the whole log and cant find any errors (here is the log: http://laechele.ath.cx/siddian/blfs/Xorg.0.log) Its loading panels,

Re: problem starting gnome 2.12.2

2006-04-06 Thread Andrew Benton
Johannes Lächele wrote: After running 'startx x-output' (get it here: http://laechele.ath.cx/siddian/blfs/x-output) and looking at the warnings/errors I tried, just as a guess, rebuilding gnome-applets, but no luck, no luck at all ^^. Gnome can be hard to debug because there are so many