Due to some meteorological disasters I've had to replace my 6.1 FreeBSD system and I've installed 7.2 on the refurbished i386 computer:
freebsd [22:03] ~>uname -a FreeBSD freebsd.connect-a.com.au 7.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE #0: Fri May 1 08:49:13 UTC 2009 My desktop is KDE Version 4.2.2 (not yet sure that this is an improvement over the previous version). I'm starting to re-install software using portupgrade (portinstall). I've a few problems with that, but I'll leave that to another post. The immediate problem is that I've used portinstall to install gimp (picture processing software) which I was happily using on the previous version. It installs OK (after a fearful amount of time) but when I start it, I get a segmentation fault: freebsd [22:07] ~>gimp & [1] 3696 freebsd [22:09] ~> [1] Segmentation fault gimp freebsd [22:09] ~> If I run as root, there is no problem: freebsd [22:09] ~>sudo gimp & [1] 3700 freebsd [22:10] ~> [1] + Suspended (tty output) sudo gimp freebsd [22:10] ~>fg sudo gimp Password: freebsd [22:11] ~> It starts OK and I can use it fine. The config file ".gimp-2.6" is saved in root's home directory. I've tried RTFM, but there is no information on this problem. Maybe it's due to some library having the wrong permissions and I should search the system for files with 544 permissions or something. Does anyone have a clue as to what's going on, or should I report a bug? Thanks heaps. Rob Hurle -- ----------------------------- Rob Hurle Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, ANU e-mail: rob1...@gmail.com Telephone (ANU): +61 2 6125 3169 Mobile (in VN): +84 948 243 538 (Currently in Australia) Mobile (in OZ): +61 417 293 603 (Currently in Australia) ----------------------------- _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"