Fair enough--xfree86-shlibs on top of system-xfree86 has historically been a major source for the problem, so that was why I made the assumption.

Assuming you have system-xfree86-43 installed, then the problem is with pango1-xft2: its dependencies haven't been modified to allow for a externally installed XFree86-4.3. The maintainer has been notified before about this--and I'll do it again.

If you'd like, you can edit the package information file yourself to make this work. Edit (assuming a default Fink setup) /sw/fink/10.2/unstable/main/finkinfo/gnome/pango1-xft2-1.2.1-3.info as root, and change the line

BuildDepends: xfree86 (>= 4.3.0), glib2-dev (>= 2.2.1-1), pkgconfig (>= 0.15.0-2), dlcompat-dev

to

BuildDepends: xfree86 (>= 4.3.0) | system-xfree86-43, glib2-dev (>= 2.2.1-1), pkgconfig (>= 0.15.0-2), dlcompat-dev

On Friday, October 3, 2003, at 01:31 PM, Mark Edwards wrote:

I don't have xfree86-shlibs installed. The gnome-desktop port was trying to install xfree86-shlibs, and claimed it was unable to because it conflicts with system-xfree86.

I don't think that xfree86-shlibs installed anything on top of my external XFree86 installation, because it was never installed.

My external XFree86 is 4.3, installed from the XDarwin package. I added quartz-wm and Xquartz to it, so I could run Apple's X11, but that's all I've changed.

I think my log out problems have to do with how I'm starting the session. This is the relevant line in my .xinitrc:

ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED] startxfce4

I have a private key installed on the freebsdmachine so that it doesn't request a password. This works fine to start the session, but it cannot seem to log out cleanly.

Alexander K. Hansen wrote:

For question #1, I think you have a different problem. Do you have both
xfree86-shlibs and system-xfree86 installed? There was an error in
xfree86-shlibs-4.3.0-1 that let it be installed on top of an external
XFree86 installation. If you do have it installed you'll need to


a) Remove xfree86-shlibs by force:

sudo dpkg -r --force-all xfree86-shlibs

or use Fink Commander's Binary->Force Remove command

b) Reinstall your external XFree86 installation.

Also, if you aren't using XFree86-4.3, make sure that you don't have any
packages whose names end in -xft2


2) If your external XFree86 was 4.2, then having 4.3 libraries mixed in due
to xfree86-shlibs may be contributing to your logout issue.


--
Alexander K. Hansen
Levitated Dipole Experiment
http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX


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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Edwards
Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 2:18 AM
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Subject: [Fink-users] gnome2 install problems


Two questions:


1)


I get the following when trying to install gnome:

xfree86-shlibs conflicts with system-xfree86
 system-xfree86 (version 4.2-6) is installed.


So, is it not possible to install gnome with XFree86 installed manually?




2)

What I really want to do is set up an elegant system whereby I can log onto my FreeBSD server desktop from my OSX machine, and log onto a window manager on that system.

I've been able to set it up so that I log on to the server via ssh -X, and startup a WM environment with gnome-session or startxfce4. However, when I log out, the WM performs the log-out procedure and then X freezes. I have simply quit XDarwin to get out. Not a huge deal, but kind of weird.

What is the best way to set this up? Ideally, I would like to have the option of selecting between a gnome or xfce4 session on my FreeBSD machine, which is why I was trying to install gnome via fink, so I could use XDMCP from gdm (I use gdm on the FreeBSD machine).


Any suggestions? Thanks!




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