On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 10:12 PM, Jeffrey Walton <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Dmitrij, > > On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 5:46 PM, Dmitrij D. Czarkoff <[email protected]> > wrote: >> On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 11:07:14AM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: >>> OK, I deleted 4.9 and installed 4.8. I saved the console messages and >>> started and started the gdm, avahi, and dbus daemon as instructed. No >>> joy. >> >> Could You please be a bit more precise? > My apologies. I'll try and clear things up now (for grandma!). > > I fell back to 4.8 because Tom stated something to the effect that > Gnome was not yet [fully] ported (forgive my misquotes). This made > some sense to me since I did see a few messages related to outdated > binaries on 4.9 when running `startx` from a teminal. I presumed the > developers knew about it, and it was OK with them (otherwise, it would > have been fixed). > >> Which instructions did You follow - those unofficial instructions on some >> website about OpenBSD 4.7 or the official README that is cited in the >> install-message at installation time? > > I followed the instructions from > http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/x11/gnome/session/pkg/README?rev=1.13;content-type=text%2Fplain. > [SNIP]
My apologies if I seemed ungrateful. OpenBSD has a rich tradition, solid stability, and a firm security posture. Jeff
