On 8/3/07, Andreas Höschler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I got this problem sorted out. It had (of course) nothing to do with > Solaris but with wrong file permissions. Here is the long story: > > ************************************************************************ > *************************************************** > Note, I am installing as root for Etoile to be used by all users: > > cd /usr/src > ls -l > total 104704 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 53565440 Aug 3 09:01 etoile-0.2.tar > > I didn' t see in the first place that these file permissions are > rather uncommon (never seen this before in any sources tar archive I > downloaded). > > tar xvf etoile-0.2.tar > ls -l > total 104706 > drwx--x--x 8 502 502 512 Jul 28 21:43 Etoile-0.2 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 53565440 Aug 3 09:01 etoile-0.2.tar > > ls -l Etoile-0.2/ > -rw------- 1 502 502 2672 Jul 28 21:38 ANNOUNCE > drwx--x--x 3 502 502 512 Jul 28 19:18 Build > drwx--x--x 8 502 502 512 Jul 28 19:19 Bundles > -rw------- 1 502 502 16902 Jul 28 19:19 ChangeLog > drwx--x--x 19 502 502 512 Jul 28 19:18 Frameworks > -rw------- 1 502 502 1406 Jul 28 19:19 GNUmakefile > -rw------- 1 502 502 5800 Jul 28 19:19 INSTALL > -rw------- 1 502 502 1527 Jul 28 19:19 INSTALL.Ubuntu > drwx--x--x 4 502 502 512 Jul 28 19:19 Languages > -rw------- 1 502 502 2179 Jul 28 19:19 README > drwx--x--x 5 502 502 512 Jul 28 19:19 Services > -rw------- 1 502 502 9167 Jul 28 19:19 etoile.make > -rwx------ 1 502 502 6138 Jul 28 19:19 setdown.sh > -rwx------ 1 502 502 9819 Jul 28 19:19 setup.sh > > Someone has a rather uncommon umask here. :-) This made some of the > files/resources of the installed stuff unreadable by a normal user. >
I guess we never pay attention to the file permission since most of developers get the code from svn. :) > and Etoile fun was over. > ************************************************************************ > *************************************************** > My hints for installing Etoile on Solaris: > > •Forget setup.sh and set things up manually (see below) > • Check file permissions; do chmod -R a+r to the Etoile source tree > after deflating Etoile-0.2.tar > • You need a bunch of fixes to the source tree to get Etoile-0.2 > compiled under Solaris (too many for this mail). If anyone is > interested drop me a note. If you can send me the diff, I can put them in as much as possible. It may ease the problem next time. Yen-Ju > > > Hopefully this is of help to someone. Thanks to the Etoile team for > this great software. Logout is not working for me yet (still have to do > pkill etoile), but I suppose this is a minor issue and probably easy to > fix. In one of the versions I had tried out I saw tool tips popping up > on the screen (probably to tell me which application my mouse pointer > is hovering over). Unfortunately they never disappeared again. In my > current install they luckily do not popup. However, there is no way for > me to determine which icon in AZDock refers to which application. The > contextual menu has no title as it should according to Yen-Ju. :-( But > this is a rather minor issue. I am a happy user of Etoile now (time to > get rid of Window Maker) and strongly recommend everybody - that not > yet dared - to check it out. :-) > > Regards, > > Andreas > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss-gnustep mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep > > _______________________________________________ Etoile-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-discuss
