Hello Joachim and others,
Joachim Schipper wrote:
Ports should work, actually, and OpenBSD should be suitable for desktop
use. The flip side of the coin is that fancy GUIs are not too well loved
amongst the developers, so support is typically less good than would be
the case for, say, Fedora Linux.
I understand, but I think It would be better not to release a software
port if it has important bugs. The bugs I found are not rare bugs, they
appear as soon as you start using the application. They should have been
detected by the porters and if the application is not ready for release
it should not be released. For example, gnumeric is NOT usable. Why has
it been released?.
However, I think I've heard of problems with the GNOME panel before (the
others are new to me, at least, but I didn't check the bugs).
You might want to:
1. Verify hardware
I have tested the same ports on another completely different machine (a
desktop computer) and failures are exactly the same.
2. Upgrade to -stable, if you have not already done so
(coincidentally, this uses gcc a lot, which is a very good memory
tester - as in, it will almost certainly SIGSEGV if your memory is
bad; bad disks might get detected, too)
I will wait for 3.9 release and will give them a try.
3. Verify your installation
4. Try to reproduce them, preferably on 3.9
5. Send a couple of bug reports. Don't forget the dmesg!
Before sending bug reports, you'll want to search the bugs list.
Joachim
Thank you very much
Ramiro.
