Re: [kde-freebsd] gamin/fam issues with KDE
On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 12:35:05PM +0100, dick hoogendijk wrote: On 14 Dec Bastiaan Welmers wrote: One nasty thing is that when afterwards installing a package requiring gamin, it will fail with errors. To prevent this you could just fake the pkg db that gamin is installed however actually fam libraries are installed. And how exactly is this faking done? I'm no fan of gamin too and if Just replace the gamin libraries by the fam ones, for example by manually extracting the libraries from the tarball and place them in /usr/local/lib without actually updating the package database. It should work fine with KDE, openoffice, I don't know it works well with programs like courier... possible I compiled my programs for fam. But this sounds nice ;-) If you want to recompile all stuff just put WITH_FAM_SYSTEM=fam in /etc/make.conf and rebuild all packages using gamin. You have to rebuild all ports because fam and gamin can't be installed together. /Bastiaan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
gamin/fam issues with KDE
Hi, For a while now the file monitor program fam has been replaced by gamin. When using KDE it seems to have the following issues: - when opening a directory with konqueror/kuickshow/some other KDE program, where removable media(USB stick, CDROM) is mounted, KDE/gamin seems to keep the directory occupied, causing problems when trying to unmount the removable media. When using fam instead of gamin, there's no problem unmounting the device. - sometimes I still can't unmount the media even if all KDE windows (and other programs) are closed. I think some instance of gamin or KDE keeps running although all windows have been closed. This also indicates sometimes not all processes are terminated well. Now I'm using fam instead of gamin again. I think it should be nice if this would become standard or the gamin issue wil be resolved, because it's quite annoying not being able to unmount removable media all the time. Did someone else experience the same behaviour? Strange thing is that when I try to find processes keeping the mounted device occupied, nothing can be found, with fstat nor with lsof. This could be because gamin's only polling a short time in a period. /Bastiaan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [kde-freebsd] gamin/fam issues with KDE
On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 12:06:43AM +, Bartosz Fabianowski wrote: Just a quick me too. I have been seeing the exact same behavior ever since gamin was shoved down our throats as a better replacement for fam. But since nobody else complained, I figured it was just my system. When building from ports it's quite easy to change back to fam, just put WITH_FAM_SYSTEM=fam into /etc/make.conf For existing systems/binary installed systems, you can just pkg_delete -f gamin* and install fam instead, so gamin libraries wil be replaced by the fam ones, it works well to me. One nasty thing is that when afterwards installing a package requiring gamin, it will fail with errors. To prevent this you could just fake the pkg db that gamin is installed however actually fam libraries are installed. Whatever gamin is doing, it is not showing up in lsof, but the file system is still busy. I did try tweaking my ~/.gaminrc to switch to polling for the mount points in question, but this didn't help. Oddly enough, sometimes, maybe one time out of ten, gamin will not exhibit this strange behavior. It will just let me unmount without any problems. Maybe because you just unmount on exactly the right moment, when gamin is not occupying the file system? Or just all windows and processes are closed cleanly. /Bastiaan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Install via ports...
On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 07:00:20PM -0500, Ne'Bahn wrote: Hi list, I've read the handbook for ports, basically (if I understand) ports are files that brings information (location, dependencies) to the system to compile a series of files (sources) to have the final piece of software. Very nice with the advantages that comes with this type of installation, but, what about a big applications like Gnome, OpenOffice and so on. I can't try ports because I can't have a fast/long connection for downloads (due to some restrictions on my country) so I always install via packages, and it takes a while, well a little bit. You can do make fetch to fetch the required package distfiles first, or make fetch-recursive to fetch all the required distfiles of all packages required by this package. see man ports for other targets. /Bastiaan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cups 1.2.2 and parallel port printers
Hi, To me cups 1.2.2 doesn't work at all with my USB printer (HP Laserjet 1010 on /dev/ulpt0). I followed the instructions to make /dev/ulpt0 accessible to cups. When I try to print something just nothing happens and after a while I get the error message /dev/ulpt0: device busy. Installing the printer with the no reset option fails because the device /dev/ulnpt0 does not exist. I'm curious this has something to do with the filed bug usb/93155 I found on http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-bugs/2006-September/020036.html /dev/ulpt0: device busy USB printer does not work However, I installed the previous cups 1.1.23 package wich works to me (FreeBSD 6.1 release). /Bastiaan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
