Building KDE3 from ports in 5.0 fails on libmng
Hello, all: I am not terribly familiar with FreeBSD, but I am learning by getting my hands dirty. To that end, I have installed and updated via CVSup, kernel, system and ports. (5.0-R to 5.0-R p4) Shortly after that, X started crashing and dumping me at the command prompt, and then KDE began having difficulties which caused it to fail starting programs and interprocess communications failed as well. Sensing an opportunity for more experience, I performed a 'pkg_delete -a' and then a 'make install for Xfree86-4. Eight hours later, when that was finished, I did a 'make install' for KDE3 as well. This has failed. the script I have recorded reveals that libmng is what is causing the failure. However, there are many error messages, and I cannot figure out how to transport the script from FreeBSD to Windows, Linux or a floppy disk to include in this request for help. The system I am using is a modified eMachine running a Cyrix 6x86-266 MHz processor with the original motherboard. The RAM has been increased to 192 megs, and the hard disk is 40 gigs, with a total of 5 gigs being allocated automatically for FreeBSD. TOP revealed that only a bit over 1.6 megs of swap had been used out of a gigabyte of it. I have been having a good time learning about FreeBSD this way, but now I am utterly lost, and I don't have a GUI anymore with which to seek help from within FreeBSD. What do I do from here? All help is appreciated. :) Thanks, Shannon __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Building KDE3 from ports in 5.0 fails on libmng
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], RexFelis [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: Hello, all: I am not terribly familiar with FreeBSD, but I am learning by getting my hands dirty. To that end, I have installed and updated via CVSup, kernel, system and ports. (5.0-R to 5.0-R p4) If you're not terribly familiar with FreeBSD, you probably shouldn't be working with the development branch. I'd recommend starting over with 4-STABLE. Not only are you less likely to have problems with it, but those here helping have a much greater depth of experience with it than with 5-CURRENT. If you don't want to move back to the production branch, you should CVSUP to 5-CURRENT, not 5.0-RELEASE p4, and then send your problem reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note that users of current are expected to be able to do at least some debugging/fixing themselves. Sensing an opportunity for more experience, I performed a 'pkg_delete -a' and then a 'make install for Xfree86-4. Eight hours later, when that was finished, I did a 'make install' for KDE3 as well. This has failed. the script I have recorded reveals that libmng is what is causing the failure. Without the actual text of the error messages, there's not much hope of diagnosing the problem. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Building KDE3 from ports in 5.0 fails on libmng
On Monday 10 March 2003 11:07 am, RexFelis wrote: Hello, all: I am not terribly familiar with FreeBSD, but I am learning by getting my hands dirty. To that end, I have installed and updated via CVSup, kernel, system and ports. (5.0-R to 5.0-R p4) Shortly after that, X started crashing and dumping me at the command prompt, and then KDE began having difficulties which caused it to fail starting programs and interprocess communications failed as well. Sensing an opportunity for more experience, I performed a 'pkg_delete -a' and then a 'make install for Xfree86-4. Eight hours later, when that was finished, I did a 'make install' for KDE3 as well. This has failed. the script I have recorded reveals that libmng is what is causing the failure. However, there are many error messages, and I cannot figure out how to transport the script from FreeBSD to Windows, Linux or a floppy disk to include in this request for help. Did you build a new INDEX-5 after you cvsuped ports-all? I am not running the release; however, as a test, I just tried making libmng and I was able to build it just fine on my tag=. system. Ports was cvsuped and the INDEX files were created on 10 Mar @ 6:46 am. The only thing that has changed in libmng in 4 months was a script update of the Makefile to include the COMMENT= line. Was it the use of libmng that killed the build or building libmng? The port tree for 5.x now points to kde-3.1 and not the 3.0.5 version from the release. If you didn't rebuild the INDEX* files, you are probably still pointing to the 3.05 version in INDEX. When I created this system, I installed everything from packages. Rebuilding everything took masive amounts of time. It is an AMD 1600+ with 512 MB of memory. kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
