Re: Chromium 19 core dumps on launch...
George Liaskos geo.lias...@gmail.com writes: On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 3:04 AM, Keith Seyffarth w...@weif.net wrote: Friday I installed Chromium again because it would be nice to have a browser to test in other than Firefox and Opera. It was installed using portinstall -R chromium, which *appeared* to function properly. However, trying to run chrome results in: pid 50993 (chrome), uid 1001: exited on signal 11 (core dumped) From what I found online, it looked like I may have been encountering an issue with devel/google-perftools, but on reinstall was able to confirm that this is building with gcc not clang. I have also removed my ~/.config/chromium directory with no change in behavior. Not sure if it's relevant, but the last version of Chromium that was *functional* for me was 12. Versions 13-16 didn't support loading web pages (the browser would launch, but if I entered a URL in the address bar, I could leave the browser running overnight and it still wouldn't have started loading a page). Then when 17 and 18 wouldn't even compile (marked ignore), I just removed package. Please try 19.0.1084.56_1, devel/google-perftools is not a dependency of chromium anymore. Thanks, George. Upgrading from chromium-19.0.1084.52_2 to chromium-19.0.1084.56_1 (and removing google-perftools) will allow Chromium to launch. However, it can't load many pages. For example: http://tools.google.com/chrome/intl/en/welcome.html http://www.alexa.com/ https://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=enanswer=1270364p=e_deadjim http://www.atlatl.com/ https://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=enanswer=95669p=e_awsnap chrome://chrome/settings/ and http://www.mariahschallenge.com/ eventually give a the page has become unresponsive error. But pages like: http://www.amazon.com/ http://www.google.com/ http://www.firsttankguide.net/ and http://www.visitphilipsburg.com/ load right away. Also, when you close the browser, either by closing the last tab, closing the window, or selecting Exit from the tools menu, it doesn't release memory or terminate the process, it just gets rid of the window... It looks like the process hangs around until you kill it. I've tried deleting the profile files again as well, with the same response. Any further ideas? Keith ___ 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
Chromium 19 core dumps on launch...
Friday I installed Chromium again because it would be nice to have a browser to test in other than Firefox and Opera. It was installed using portinstall -R chromium, which *appeared* to function properly. However, trying to run chrome results in: pid 50993 (chrome), uid 1001: exited on signal 11 (core dumped) From what I found online, it looked like I may have been encountering an issue with devel/google-perftools, but on reinstall was able to confirm that this is building with gcc not clang. I have also removed my ~/.config/chromium directory with no change in behavior. Not sure if it's relevant, but the last version of Chromium that was *functional* for me was 12. Versions 13-16 didn't support loading web pages (the browser would launch, but if I entered a URL in the address bar, I could leave the browser running overnight and it still wouldn't have started loading a page). Then when 17 and 18 wouldn't even compile (marked ignore), I just removed package. Looking for suggestions on getting Chromium to at least launch... ___ 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
Re: Issue upgrading to 7.4, looking for guidance
David, I ran into a similar issue upgrading from 7.2 to 7.3. Here's the thread where I worked it out; it might be helpful in your case: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2010-July/218443.html My eventual solution was here, if you don't want to read through the whole thread: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2010-July/218884.html I ended up getting instructions from a friend n manually running # make buildworld # mergemaster -p # make installworld # mergemaster -i to get the world upgraded to 7.4-PRERELEASE. After this a bunch of removing, reinstalling, and upgrading of ports was necessary, but everything appears to be working now. Of course, not having a FreeBSD CD for any version of FreeBSD would make copying a file from the CD rather difficult... ;) Keith S. ___ 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
Issue upgrading to 7.4, looking for guidance
I recently was having problems with Firefox crashing, which appear to be related to a requirement for semaphore support for Firefox after the upgrade to the new version of GTK. Anyway, this left me with a 7.4 kernel and a 7.2 world. Which I understand is supposed to work. However, this broke CUPS for printing, and I need to be able to print to pdf. This error is generated if I try to build cups, or when cups tries to load on startup: /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: ./mantohtml: invalid PT_PHDR From looking around on-line, it looks like somewhere between 7.2 and 7.4 there was an incompatibility that causes this error in a number of places (printing, samba, etc.) So, it looks like I need to upgrade the rest of the way. But I can't get the upgrade to work. I thought this was where to start: # freebsd-update -r 7.4-RELEASE upgrade Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 4 mirrors found. Fetching public key from update5.FreeBSD.org... failed. Fetching public key from update4.FreeBSD.org... failed. Fetching public key from update2.FreeBSD.org... failed. Fetching public key from update3.FreeBSD.org... failed. No mirrors remaining, giving up. So I ran uname -a to find that this is 7.4-PRERELEASE FreeBSD janet.weif.net 7.4-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.4-PRERELEASE #0: Thu Jan 20 19:39:15 MST 2011 w...@janet.weif.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/JANET i386 so I tried this: # freebsd-update -r 7.4-PRERELEASE upgrade freebsd-update: Cannot upgrade from 7.4-PRERELEASE to itself so, um, what do I need to do to address this error: /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: ./mantohtml: invalid PT_PHDR Keith S. ___ 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
Re: use of menus crashes Firefox?
Doing a bt would have been helpful right about there, but I think I've got enough info to suggest rebuilding your kernel with the following option: options P1003_1B_SEMAPHORES thanks again, Chuck. I can easily get the bt if needed, but I looked into rebuilding the kernel. It looks like I need to first update the source tree. I think I can see how to do that with cvsup, but if I do that, am I going to be trying to build an 8.3 kernel to run in a 7.2 environment? I suspect that would not have the desired end result of a running computer... Or should I just build the kernel with what's currently in /usr/src? Keith ___ 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
Re: use of menus crashes Firefox?
So have you tried this? == Firefox 3.6 and HTML5 Certain functions used to display HTML5 elements need the sem module. If your Firefox crashes with the following message while viewing a HTML5 page: Bad system call (core dumped) you need to load the sem module (kldload sem). To load sem on every boot put the following into your /boot/loader.conf: sem_load=YES == I hadn't, but the issues I'm seeing don't seem to be related to HTML 5. It also persists to Firefox 3.5 in addition to 3.6. I would expect that if clicking on a menu in Firefox 3.6 required this. I did make that change to see if it helps at some point in the future... Right now I'm updating /usr/src to try a new kernel. Keith ___ 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
Re: use of menus crashes Firefox?
Chuck, Nope, not if you cvsup or use csup (which comes with the system already, most likely) to RELENG_7_2 or RELENG_7, the latter of which would give you 7-STABLE, which is approaching 7.4 nowadays. I suspect that would not have the desired end result of a running computer... Actually, you can run a 7.x userland under a 8.x kernel. That's how a major version update of FreeBSD from source is supposed to work. :-) Or should I just build the kernel with what's currently in /usr/src? That should also work. But it's beneficial to update your sources for the version you wish to run, since you will gain security changes which have been made since Thanks again. Got /usr/src updated. Got a new kernel built. FreeBSD janet.weif.net 7.4-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.4-PRERELEASE #0: Thu Jan 20 19:39:15 MST 2011 w...@janet.weif.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/JANET i386 Kernel booted, x started, firefox started, firefox closed without crashing. now to uninstall FF3.5 and install FF3.6 Keith ___ 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
Re: use of menus crashes Firefox? (resolved, I think)
And menus work in Firefox 3.6. I'll have to actually work with it for a day tomorrow to see how it holds up, but I've tried a variety of things and it seems to be playing nicely. It looks like the solution was to rebuild the kernel with semaphore support through P1003_1B_SEMAPHORES. Thanks. Keith ___ 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
Re: use of menus crashes Firefox?
Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com writes: Enter run, or c for continue. If and when Firefox crashes, you will be able to gain more useful information That does provide a bunch more information. Thank you. Here is the output when Firefox crashed when trying to load a web page. I can definitely get another one for when Firefox crashes when you exit, and I can probably get another one for when it crashes when you reload a page, but that's a little less easy to reproduce. (to maintain some readability, I removed the loading lines) $ gdb /usr/local/lib/firefox3/firefox-bin 1303 Attaching to program: /usr/local/lib/firefox3/firefox-bin, process 1303 [New Thread 0x2c628be0 (LWP 100152)] [New Thread 0x2ca0c130 (LWP 100191)] [New Thread 0x2c628e00 (LWP 100188)] [New Thread 0x2ca0b470 (LWP 100185)] [New Thread 0x2b508ef0 (LWP 100186)] [New Thread 0x2ca0bad0 (LWP 100184)] [New Thread 0x2ca0bbe0 (LWP 100192)] [New Thread 0x2ca0b9c0 (LWP 100190)] [New Thread 0x2ca0b8b0 (LWP 100189)] [New Thread 0x2a201480 (LWP 100183)] [New Thread 0x2a201370 (LWP 100182)] [New Thread 0x2a201260 (LWP 100181)] [New Thread 0x2a201150 (LWP 100180)] [New Thread 0x2a201040 (LWP 100179)] [Switching to Thread 0x2c628be0 (LWP 100152)] 0x29e581a7 in __error () from /lib/libthr.so.3 (gdb) c Continuing. [New Thread 0x2ca0af20 (LWP 100187)] [Thread 0x2ca0bad0 (LWP 100184) exited] [Thread 0x2ca0af20 (LWP 100187) exited] [Thread 0x2ca0c130 (LWP 100191) exited] [New Thread 0x2afc79c0 (LWP 100184)] [Thread 0x2afc79c0 (LWP 100184) exited] [New Thread 0x2c628cf0 (LWP 100184)] [Thread 0x2c628cf0 (LWP 100184) exited] [New Thread 0x2ca0a590 (LWP 100184)] [Thread 0x2ca0a590 (LWP 100184) exited] [New Thread 0x2c628140 (LWP 100154)] [Thread 0x2c628140 (LWP 100154) exited] [New Thread 0x2ca0bad0 (LWP 100154)] [Thread 0x2ca0bad0 (LWP 100154) exited] [New Thread 0x2ca0af20 (LWP 100154)] [Thread 0x2ca0af20 (LWP 100154) exited] [New Thread 0x2ca0c130 (LWP 100154)] [Thread 0x2ca0c130 (LWP 100154) exited] [New Thread 0x2afc79c0 (LWP 100154)] [Thread 0x2afc79c0 (LWP 100154) exited] [New Thread 0x2c628cf0 (LWP 100154)] [Thread 0x2c628cf0 (LWP 100154) exited] [New Thread 0x2ca0a590 (LWP 100154)] [New Thread 0x2c628140 (LWP 100161)] [Thread 0x2ca0a590 (LWP 100154) exited] Program received signal SIGPIPE, Broken pipe. [Switching to Thread 0x2a201040 (LWP 100179)] 0x29e16213 in write () from /lib/libc.so.7 (gdb) c Continuing. Program received signal SIGSYS, Bad system call. 0x29d7f16b in ksem_init () from /lib/libc.so.7 (gdb) c Continuing. Program terminated with signal SIGSYS, Bad system call. The program no longer exists. (gdb) q ___ 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
Re: use of menus crashes Firefox?
It's not going to help you but I just want to confirm that I'm experiencing the same problem on 8.1-R amd64. It's not happening all the time i.e. everything works fine and then it bites me say only once in a week. FreeBSD janet.weif.net 7.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE #1: Sat Oct 31 16:21:25 MDT 2009 on a 2.4 GHZ Pentium Dual Core But, while Firefox 3.5 is much better than Firefox 3.6, I don't think I've gone a whole day without it crashing since I upgraded GTK mid-December. Keith ___ 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
Re: use of menus crashes Firefox?
OK. This is still being a problem. I've removed Firefox 3.6 from my system and installed Firefox 3.5. Use of menus doesn't cause 3.5 to crash, but it sill has problems. On some web sites, the browser dumps core. For example trying to log in, create an account, or retrieve a password at forum.parallels.com which leaves this core (as processed by gdb): Core was generated by `firefox-bin'. Program terminated with signal 12, Bad system call. #0 0x29d7f16b in ?? () Now, again, this is in Firefox 3.5. That message isn't very informative to me, but maybe it is helpful to someone else? Again, this started after updating GTK on December 18 or so, following the instructions in /usr/ports/UPDATING Among the things that will cause Firefox to dump core in 3.5 or 3.6 are visiting some web sites (see above), accepting a signed secure certificate the first time (once it crashes Firefox, it's not a problem on subsequent visits), attempting to accept a questionable certificate (either telling Firefox to accept the certificate permanently or not), or exiting Firefox. In firefox 3.6, anything that generates a menu will also crash the browser. I have tried So far I have tried the following: * Remove the .mozilla directory and start firefox without extensions, plugins, or customizations * Force reinstall of Firefox (portupgrade -F) * Remove and reinstall Firefox * Force reinstall of the mouse input driver * Remove and reinstall xorg and components * Remove and reinstall Fluxbox window manager * pkg_deleteing all firefox plugins and nspluginwrapper * Uninstalling Firefox 3.6 and installing Firefox 3.5 (helpful, but not fixed) * running portupgrade -aOW again I'm wondering if this can't be fixed short of formatting and starting over, but I'd really hope to avoid a very M$Windows solution like that... Any further ideas? Keith S. ___ 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
Re: use of menus crashes Firefox?
Rolf, Thanks for the info. Are you by any chance overriding CFLAGS in /etc/make.conf? Or perhaps No, /etc/make.conf is just three lines: WITH_CUPS=yes # added by use.perl 2010-12-22 15:53:20 PERL_VERSION=5.10.1 even compiling using a gcc version not in the base system? I had that exact problem with Firefox 3.6 (and with Thunderbird as well) and menus when compiling with gcc45 and/or overriding CFLAGS. It went away when I re-built Firefox (well, actually, I re-built everything, world, kernel and all the ports) using the stock compiler and removed all CFLAGS overrides. I'm not aware of anything I've done that would have switched compilers. How would I tell? This is the version output: # gcc --version gcc (GCC) 4.2.1 20070719 [FreeBSD] Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Keith ___ 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
Re: use of menus crashes Firefox?
Run it under gdb, look at the backtrace. Bad system call implies a mismatch between your shared libraries and kernel, or maybe you are loading some plugin or something which has been compiled for a different version of the platform. Chuck, Thanks for the suggestion. I can't figure out how to get that to work... $ gdb --exec=firefox3 This GDB was configured as i386-marcel-freebsd./usr/local/bin/firefox3: not in executable format: File format not recognized $ gdb --exec=firefox-bin This GDB was configured as i386-marcel-freebsd...firefox-bin: No such file or directory. or $ gdb firefox3 This GDB was configured as i386-marcel-freebsd.../usr/local/bin/firefox3: not in executable format: File format not recognized It doesn't seem that gdb thinks firefox is an executable... I'm not seeing what I'm missing from the man page. I can get it to pick up the process once it is running: $ gdb firefox3 9759 This GDB was configured as i386-marcel-freebsd.../usr/local/bin/firefox3: not in executable format: File format not recognized Attaching to process 9759 /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/gdb/libgdb/../../../../contrib/gdb/gdb/solib-svr4.c:1443: internal-error: legacy_fetch_link_map_offsets called without legacy link_map support enabled. A problem internal to GDB has been detected, further debugging may prove unreliable. Quit this debugging session? (y or n) n /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/gdb/libgdb/../../../../contrib/gdb/gdb/solib-svr4.c:1443: internal-error: legacy_fetch_link_map_offsets called without legacy link_map support enabled. A problem internal to GDB has been detected, further debugging may prove unreliable. Create a core file of GDB? (y or n) y Abort trap: 6 (core dumped) this results in both Firefox and GDB crashing... $ gdb --core=gdb.core This GDB was configured as i386-marcel-freebsd. Core was generated by `gdb'. Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted. #0 0x283e8e17 in ?? () So, how do I get FF to run under gdb? or does the above provide enough information to try a fix? Thanks, Keith ___ 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
Re: use of menus crashes Firefox?
Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com writes: On Jan 18, 2011, at 6:01 PM, Keith Seyffarth wrote: $ gdb --exec=firefox3 This GDB was configured as i386-marcel-freebsd./usr/local/bin/firefox3: not in executable format: File format not recognized What does file /usr/local/bin/firefox3 say? $ file /usr/local/bin/firefox3 /usr/local/bin/firefox3: Bourne shell script text executable If it's a Linux binary, then you might not be able to debug it with the native gdb, although the point of a binary executable format like ELF should allow cross-debugging. It also implies that you might need to tweak your Linux emulation version (sysctl compat.linux.osrelease)... I don't think it's a Linux version - it's installed from /usr/ports/www/firefox35 rather than /usr/ports/www/linux-firefox Thanks again, Keith ___ 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
Re: use of menus crashes Firefox?
Right - firefox3 is a script that sets up a couple environment variables and runs the real binary. You need to gdb the real binary (which is in /usr/local/lib/firefox or somesuch - its not in any remotely normal $PATH). Since the environment stuff the script does is required for it to start, temporarily editing the script and running firefox3 is probably the easiest thing to do. Hmmm. OK. I did this: $ gdb /usr/local/lib/firefox3/firefox-bin 10388 This results in Firefox being locked and non-responsive to the user interface. It can't even draw the screen if I switch to that desktop, there's just a window frame hanging there. Even clicking the close button (the X in the top corner of the window) doesn't do anything... nor does right-clicking on the window title bar and selecting close. If I quit gdb, then firefox becomes responsive again. But it does put this in the console where I ran GDB (there's a lot). there are 11 [New Thread x (LWP y)] lines, and one error line. The error line is right at the end 0x29e581a7 in __error () from /lib/libthr.so.3 This GDB was configured as i386-marcel-freebsd...(no debugging symbols found)... Attaching to program: /usr/local/lib/firefox3/firefox-bin, process 10388 Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/firefox3/libxul.so...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/firefox3/libxul.so Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/firefox3/libmozjs.so...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/firefox3/libmozjs.so Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/firefox3/libxpcom.so...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/firefox3/libxpcom.so Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libplds4.so.1...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/libplds4.so.1 Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libplc4.so.1...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/libplc4.so.1 Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libnspr4.so.1...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/libnspr4.so.1 Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libatk-1.0.so.0...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/libatk-1.0.so.0 Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libpangocairo-1.0.so.0...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/libpangocairo-1.0.so.0 Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libXext.so.6...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/libXext.so.6 Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libXrender.so.1...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/libXrender.so.1 Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libXinerama.so.1...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/libXinerama.so.1 Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libXi.so.6...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/libXi.so.6 Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libXrandr.so.2...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/libXrandr.so.2 Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libXcursor.so.1...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/libXcursor.so.1 Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libXcomposite.so.1...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/libXcomposite.so.1Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libXdamage.so.1...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/libXdamage.so.1 Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libpangoft2-1.0.so.0...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libpango-1.0.so.0...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/libpango-1.0.so.0 Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libfreetype.so.9...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/libfreetype.so.9 Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libfontconfig.so.1...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libgio-2.0.so.0...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/libgio-2.0.so.0 Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libXfixes.so.3...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/libXfixes.so.3 Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 Reading symbols from
Firefox 3.6 crashes after GTK upgrade
On Saturday December 19, I updated GTK following the instructions in /usr/ports/UPDATING and since then any click that should draw a menu instead crashes Firefox. This includes the main menus (file, edit, view, etc), right clicking, or menus in various extensions. I have also found that some javascript will also crash the browser. Here is the contents of the /usr/ports/www/firefox directory: 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 3812 Dec 13 12:09 Makefile 10 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 8676 Jan 9 2009 Makefile.webplugins 2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel154 Dec 13 12:09 distinfo 2 drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 2048 Dec 13 12:09 files 2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel329 Feb 24 2010 pkg-descr 2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1535 Feb 24 2010 pkg-message So far I have tried the following: * Remove the .mozilla directory and start firefox without extensions, plugins, or customizations * Force reinstall of Firefox (portupgrade -F) * Remove and reinstall Firefox * Force reinstall of the mouse input driver * Remove and reinstall xorg and components * Remove and reinstall Fluxbox window manager I'm not sure what else to try. Does anyone have any suggestions? I did receive one suggestion to gdbm the .core file, but can't find any information on how I would apply a database manager to a file like that, or what I would expect to find from that. Keith S. ___ 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
Re: use of menus crashes Firefox?
gdbm the core.dump and see if that helps (you may need to enable symbols in Thanks for the information, but I'm not sure what you mean by gdbm the core.dump. GDBM appears to be a database management tool of some sort, but the man page does not make it at all clear how one could or would gdbm a file. your kernel as well as in the port in question to get a core.dump w/ enough info to be of use). You may also try cross-posting to mozilla's list (I'm not sure if fbsd.org has a mozilla list or not, so I would head over to mozzila.org and try there as well) I did post to the Mozilla forum as well, but haven't heard anything there... Thanks, Keith S. ___ 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
use of menus crashes Firefox?
After updating gtk following (and most other ports) following the instructions in UPDATING, Firefox now crashes if I click on any menu. This includes the menus such as file, edit, and help in the main menu bar as well as right-clicking or clicking a menu from an extension. So far I have tried rebooting the computer forcing reinstall of Firefox and dependencies (portupgrade -fR) deleting firefox using pkg_delete and reinstalling This seems to be the only thing in the log: Dec 19 19:35:59 janet kernel: pid 1260 (firefox-bin), uid 1001: exited on signal 12 (core dumped) I'm not sure what else to try. Any suggestions? Keith S. ___ 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
MacIP Gateway Solution for FreeBSD?
I'm running FreeBSD 7.2 (FreeBSD janet.weif.net 7.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE #1: Sat Oct 31 16:21:25 MDT 2009 ch...@janet.weif.net:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/JANET i386) with netatalk installed so I can connect my old Macintosh Quadra 605 to the FreeBSD machine to share files. I would like to get the Mac internet access, but I need a Macintosh IP Gateway installed on the network somewhere. there was a package called macipgw, but that fails to compile on FreeBSD 7. Does anyone have an updated version of macipgw, or does anyone know of another port to handle this? Keith S. -- from my mac to yours... Keith Seyffarth mailto:w...@weif.net http://www.weif.net/ - Home of the First Tank Guide! http://www.rpgcalendar.net/ - the Montana Role-Playing Calendar http://www.miscon.org/ - Montana's Longest Running Science Fiction Convention Talk MisCon: http://www.miscon.org/forums/ ___ 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
Re: Gnucash 2.2.7_2 after upgrade to Firefox 3.0.9
This patch worked for me: https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2009-April/029582.html ___ 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
Gnucash 2.2.7_2 after upgrade to Firefox 3.0.9
Is anyone else having issues wit Gnucash 2.2.7 crashing when you try to open an account after portupgrading Firefox in response to security audit reports from about a week ago? (that's the only change I can think of that seems to coincide with the change in behavior; and yes, I did look through UPDATING for known issues first...) Gnucash will launch just fine, but when I try to open an account it crashes. Running Gnucash in debug mode only reports that there was a segmentation fault and core was dumped. Looking through the Gnucash FAQ on the Gnucash site, I saw that there was an issue similar to this on Windows, and their recommended fix was to remove ~/.gconf, ~/.gconfd, ~/gnome2, and ~/gnucash. Though these instructions were for windows, I tried moving those files to see if that made a difference, but it didn't. I also tried pkg_deleting gnucash and then portinstalling it again, as well as removing the ~/gnucash directory, or removing all the various .log files and .xac files from the ~/gnucash directory, but I continue to have the same behavior; gnucash will open, but trying to open an account in gnucash (either by clicking the Open button or by double clicking the account name) gets gnucash to dump core. I have also downloaded the source tarball for gnucash 2.2.9 from sourceforge, but encounter an issue running ./configure on that, as it is not finding gettext (which I appear to have installed at /usr/local/bin/gettext). Ideas? Thoughts? Suggestions? Keith S. ___ 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
Re: Can you ACTUALLY print from FreeBSD?
What version of FreeBSD are you using? There was a problem with certain USB devices in the 6.x branch with timing out. What would the symptoms of this timing out be? what I'm seeing is pretty instantaneous. In fact, printing to lpr instead of cups (with cups disabled), I usually can't catch the job in the print spool folder (because I can't hit the up arrow twice fast enough to pull it out of my history before it thinks it has finished printing). ___ 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
Re: Can you ACTUALLY print from FreeBSD?
What kind of printing do you need to do? For the moment there are two things: 1. Create .pdf files from HTML/XHTML documents viewed in Firefox or Opera 2. Print HTML/XHTML documents viewed in Firefox or Opera to a printer. To send files to some either attached or network attached printer, you just need to: set up an entry in /etc/printcap for a printer named myprt, make something like: lp|myprt|HP OfficeJet 4110 N:\ :lp=:rp=myprt:rm=myprt.prt.full.hostname:\ :sh:mx#0:\ :sd=/var/spool/myprt:\ :lf=/var/log/printer.log: (Of course, change myprt.prt.full.hostname to a real address) I have this: lp|OfficeJet:\ :lp=/dev/ulpt0:\ :af=/usr/local/share/ppd/HP//HP-OfficeJet_4110-hpijs.ppd.gz:\ :if=/usr/local/bin/foomatic-rip:\ :sd=/var/spool/print.hp:\ :lf=/var/log/print.hp.log:\ :sh: create a spool directory for it in /var/spool (eg for a printer named myprt in printcap, create a /var/spool/myprt directory created directory /var/spool/print.hp create an empty log file for it touch /var/log/printer.log touched /var/log/print.hp.log then enable lpd in /etc/rc.conf - lpd_enable=YES added this This sets up a 'standard' printer destination (named lp) Then you can print using lpr(1) I can send files to the print spool this way, but then they just disappear from the print spool. There is no evidence of attempted communication with the printer, and certainly no printing going on. Some utilities want to use cups and other heavy stuff, but just for regular printing - of a file or from firefox or openoffice, etc you don't need that. Never used OpenOffice... ___ 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
Can you ACTUALLY print from FreeBSD?
I'm trying to print from my FreeBSD machine. I've been through a number of online tutorials and instructions on printing from Unix or FreeBSD in particular, but they all seem to start with the assumption that printing from the machine is possible. I'm trying to get to that starting point. I have installed: cups-base-1.3.9_3 Common UNIX Printing System cups-pdf-2.5.0 A virtual printer for CUPS to produce PDF files cups-pstoraster-8.15.4_2 Postscript interpreter for CUPS printing to non-PS printers gutenprint-cups-5.1.7_3 GutenPrint Printer Driver libgnomecups-0.2.3_1,1 Support library for gnome cups admistration hplip-2.8.2_4 Drivers and utilities for HP Printers and All-in-One device The printer I'm working with is a HP Officejet 4110. There seem to be several issues with printing. First, since this is a USB printer, the pinter is always owned by root:operator with read permissions for user, group, and world. Adding these lines to /etc/devfs.conf link ulpt0 printer own ulpt0 cups:cups perm ulpt0 0666 will set the ownership to cups:cups and the permissions to read and write for user, group, and world on startup if the printer is already turned on and plugged in. However, if the printer is not turned on at startup, or if it is disconnected or turned off after system startup, ownership and permissions revert. Trying chown or chmod to the device at /dev/ulpt0 gives an invalid path error, and trying to do so following the instructions in the man page for devfs give 'operation not supported by device' errors. When th device is owned by root, attempting to print the test page generates a 'permission denied' error in CUPS. When the device is owned by cups, attempting to print the test page generates a failed error in CUPS. When the device is owned by cups, this error is reported in the error log in CUPS, if debug logging is enabled: [CGI] /usr/local/share/cups/drivers/pscript5.dll: No such file or directory There isn't a drivers directory in /usr/local/share/cups. I can make one, but where do I get the pscript5.dll, and what else is it going to rely on? CUPS et al were installed using portinstall, and CUPS is working well to produce .pdf files. I tried portupgrade last night on all the (I think) relevant ports, but the system thinks they are all up to date. So, questions: 1. how can I get permissions on the device to stick, so that I do not have to reboot the machine every time we want to print or have to power cycle the printer? 2. Am I correct that the missing .dll (that seems awfully Windows to me) is the problem in getting a filter to print? If so, what do I need to do to install it? And, actually, a third printing-related issue: How do I get cupsd to start on startup? I have these two lines in /etc/rc.conf:\ cupsd_enable=YES # enable cups printing management devfs_system_ruleset=system # something else they say cups needs but CUPS has to be manually started by root after each reboot. what else needs to be done to get cupsd to start at startup? Keith ___ 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
Re: Can you ACTUALLY print from FreeBSD?
snip Follow the instructions here: http://desktopbsd.net/wiki/doku.php?id=doc:printing I'm currently four days of troubleshooting after having done all that's listed on that wiki entry (though I didn't find that page until yesterday), and still trying to get close. That would be one of the pages I obliquely referred to as assuming that printing was possible... snip cupsd_enable=YES should do the trick in rc.conf - nothing else needed to start cups as a service. I'd have to disagree with this statement, based on experience. That line has been in rc.conf since Januray, and cupsd *never* starts on boot. I'd guess that there has to be something else done somewhere to get it to actually start. ___ 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
Re: Can you ACTUALLY print from FreeBSD?
Sorry - meant to add this to post Take a look here:- http://openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-OfficeJet_4110 A free driver is available, rather than the windows .dll Downloaded and installed that ppd and selected it fro the printer. It still errors that the pscript5.dll is missing. ___ 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
Re: Can you ACTUALLY print from FreeBSD?
I'm trying to print from my FreeBSD machine. I've been through a number of online tutorials and instructions on printing from Unix or FreeBSD in particular, but they all seem to start with the assumption that printing from the machine is possible. I'm trying to get to that starting point. A laudable ambition! OK, honestly, am I working under a valid assumption that it *is* possible to print from FreeBSD? Or is this just going to engender greater frustration? cups-base-1.3.9_3 Common UNIX Printing System cups-pdf-2.5.0 A virtual printer for CUPS to produce PDF files cups-pstoraster-8.15.4_2 Postscript interpreter for CUPS printing to non-PS printers gutenprint-cups-5.1.7_3 GutenPrint Printer Driver libgnomecups-0.2.3_1,1 Support library for gnome cups admistration hplip-2.8.2_4 Drivers and utilities for HP Printers and All-in-One device Looks good so far. Thanks. The printer I'm working with is a HP Officejet 4110. 1. how can I get permissions on the device to stick, so that I do not have to reboot the machine every time we want to print or have to power cycle the printer? Wrong file - add the changes to /etc/devfs.rules /etc/devfs.conf is for fixed devices - devfs.rules for plug-in stuff. OK. I created and edited this file. At least now on attaching the printer, the permissions are other than root:operator. 2. Am I correct that the missing .dll (that seems awfully Windows to me) is the problem in getting a filter to print? If so, what do I need to do to install it? I don't know - try it with the permissions set as above. That doesn't change the behavior. It still fails to print, and seems to error on a missing dll. And, actually, a third printing-related issue: How do I get cupsd to start on startup? I have these two lines in /etc/rc.conf:\ cupsd_enable=YES # enable cups printing management That should be enough to get it running. it doesn't. :( devfs_system_ruleset=system # something else they say cups needs in which case the first line in /etc/devfs.rules should be [system=10] that line starts a new ruleset with the name system and the number 10 got that. However, it doesn't seem to have changed the behavior of the system - well, other than the printer ownership s different when it is plugged in. ___ 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
Re: Can you ACTUALLY print from FreeBSD?
Follow the instructions here: http://desktopbsd.net/wiki/doku.php?id=doc:printing I'm currently four days of troubleshooting after having done all that's listed on that wiki entry (though I didn't find that page until yesterday), and still trying to get close. That would be one of the pages I obliquely referred to as assuming that printing was possible... When I read that the first time, I didn't have much idea of CUPS and devfs rules. I could still make it work. yeah, the instructions there work great up to: I then selected the Printer tab, clicked the Print test page, and successfully printed a test page. I can go to the Printer tab and click Print test page, but what happens next is not even evidence of communication with the printer, just a failed message. cupsd_enable=YES should do the trick in rc.conf - nothing else needed to start cups as a service. I'd have to disagree with this statement, based on experience. That line has been in rc.conf since Januray, and cupsd *never* starts on boot. I'd guess that there has to be something else done somewhere to get it to actually start. There must be some problem in your system - there is nothing else in my rc.conf about cups, and it does start at boot on my system. Yeah, I'm guessing that there is something missing somewhere, or something that CUPS doesn't install by default, or something that is supposed to be set in some other file, or something, I just haven't got a clue where to look or what to look for. Having to start cups manually isn't really all that bad, but it would ne nice not to have to. However, that's all pretty moot if there isn't a way to get ink to paper from a FreeBSD machine... ___ 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
Re: Can you ACTUALLY print from FreeBSD?
cups-base-1.3.9_3 Common UNIX Printing System cups-pdf-2.5.0 A virtual printer for CUPS to produce PDF files cups-pstoraster-8.15.4_2 Postscript interpreter for CUPS printing to non-= PS printers gutenprint-cups-5.1.7_3 GutenPrint Printer Driver libgnomecups-0.2.3_1=2C1 Support library for gnome cups admistration hplip-2.8.2_4 Drivers and utilities for HP Printers and All-in-One = device Just a question: do you have foomatic filters installed? OpenPrinting sugge= sts them=2C and I don't see them above. yes: foomatic-filters-3.0.2_4 Foomatic wrapper scripts sorry I didn't list them previously. ___ 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
Re: Can you ACTUALLY print from FreeBSD?
snip This makes no sense at all. DLLs are a Windows version of a library. FreeBSD That's what I thought. Here's the line in question: D [20/Apr/2009:13:07:46 -0600] [CGI] /usr/local/share/cups/drivers/pscript5.dll: No such file or directory doesn't use them. Are you by any chance trying to print through Wine? Nope. Don't have Wine installed. snip Do you have the startup script: /usr/local/etc/rc.d/cupsd ? yes If so, what is the output of /usr/local/etc/rc.d/cupsd status? currently it's: cupsd is running as pid 721. but I did start cups manually since my last reboot. You should have the following files and folders: /usr/local/etc/cups/ classes.confinterfaces/ mime.types.Npstoraster.convs cupsd.conf mime.convs ppd/snmp.conf cupsd.conf.Nmime.convs.Nprinters.conf snmp.conf.N cupsd.conf.default mime.types printers.conf.O ssl/ $ ls /usr/local/etc/cups/ classes.confcupsd.conf.default printers.conf classes.conf.O interfaces printers.conf.O command.types mime.convs pstoraster.convs cups-pdf.conf mime.convs.Nsnmp.conf cups-pdf.conf.samplemime.types snmp.conf.N cupsd.conf mime.types.Nssl cupsd.conf.Oppd What's the output of this command? # grep -v # /usr/local/etc/cups/cupsd.conf LogLevel debug SystemGroup wheel Listen localhost:631 Listen /var/run/cups.sock Browsing On BrowseOrder allow,deny BrowseAllow all DefaultAuthType Basic Location / Order allow,deny /Location Location /admin Encryption Required Order allow,deny /Location Location /admin/conf AuthType Default Require user @SYSTEM Order allow,deny /Location Policy default Limit Send-Document Send-URI Hold-Job Release-Job Restart-Job Purge-Jobs Set-Job-Attributes Create-Job-Subscription Renew-Subscription Cancel-Subscription Get-Notifications Reprocess-Job Cancel-Current-Job Suspend-Current-Job Resume-Job CUPS-Move-Job Require user @OWNER @SYSTEM Order deny,allow /Limit Limit CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer CUPS-Delete-Printer CUPS-Add-Modify-Class CUPS-Delete-Class CUPS-Set-Default AuthType Default Require user @SYSTEM Order deny,allow /Limit Limit Pause-Printer Resume-Printer Enable-Printer Disable-Printer Pause-Printer-After-Current-Job Hold-New-Jobs Release-Held-New-Jobs Deactivate-Printer Activate-Printer Restart-Printer Shutdown-Printer Startup-Printer Promote-Job Schedule-Job-After CUPS-Accept-Jobs CUPS-Reject-Jobs AuthType Default Require user @SYSTEM Order deny,allow /Limit Limit Cancel-Job CUPS-Authenticate-Job Require user @OWNER @SYSTEM Order deny,allow /Limit Limit All Order deny,allow /Limit /Policy What's the output of this command? # cat /usr/local/etc/cups/printer.conf $ cat /usr/local/etc/cups/printers.conf # Printer configuration file for CUPS v1.3.9 # Written by cupsd on 2009-04-20 12:51 DefaultPrinter HP Info HP Officejet 4100 Location wherever DeviceURI usb:/dev/ulpt0 State Idle StateTime 1240253002 Accepting Yes Shared Yes JobSheets none none QuotaPeriod 0 PageLimit 0 KLimit 0 OpPolicy default ErrorPolicy stop-printer /Printer Printer PDFWriter Info Creates PDF files in /var/spool/cups-pdf/ Location Internal DeviceURI cups-pdf:/ State Idle StateTime 1231089826 Accepting Yes Shared Yes JobSheets none none QuotaPeriod 0 PageLimit 0 KLimit 0 OpPolicy default ErrorPolicy stop-printer /Printer Have you read the CUPS documentation? http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/overview.html Most of that, plus the information in the FreeBSD handbook and FAQ, and several sites instructions on setting up CUPS, and several pages specifically on getting an OfficeJet 4110 working on Unix in general or FreeBSD in particular, with or without CUPS, and a bunch of the stuff in the online documentation in CUPS (from the Documentation/Help tab; which seems to be the same as the documentation from CUPS.org). It works well for creating .pdf files, but, from what I've seen so far (with only one piece of hardware to try to work with), not very well for getting a hardcopy directly. ___ 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
Re: Can you ACTUALLY print from FreeBSD?
Googling that shows it to be a file shared with Windows boxes when you're running samba. I don't know if you set up samba or not, but I would ignore this error for now. It's likely unrelated to the printing problem that you're having. OK. Thanks. I guess. I was kind of hoping that figuring that out might be the fix... Do you have the startup script: /usr/local/etc/rc.d/cupsd ? yes If so, what is the output of /usr/local/etc/rc.d/cupsd status? currently it's: cupsd is running as pid 721. but I did start cups manually since my last reboot. Cupsd was started automatically on reboot by the script. So that part is working fine. after rebooting the machine, it's: cupsd is not running. config info snipped It appears the problem is the printer. Try changing the perms to 0777 for testing purposes. If you're able to print, the problem is permissions. You'll have to figure out what permissions you need to get it working. That doesn't help. I get the same behavior with the permissions set to 0777. One person mentioned that you should be using the ugen device instead of /dev/ultp0. This thread might be relevant - http://foo2zjs.rkkda.com/forum/read.php?9,546,547 You might have to abandon using cupsd for this printer. Yeah. We may not be using this printer long anyway, since it is nearly out of ink, and the ink will be $95. It would just be nice to be able to demonstrate that printing is an option. Also, from what I've been seeing in my testing and so on since Thursday, it looks like if you use CUPS at all, you can't use anything else, since CUPS overwrites things like /etc/printcap with its own settings frequently. And since I've been successfully using cups-pdf for several months, I'd need a replacement for that. At least with that, despite all the shortcomings of .pdf format, we can still get stuff printed. Just not in our office. If so, this might be helpful: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/07/08/FreeBSD_Basics.html?page=last I had read through that several times. It is one of several places pointing out that the device has to be at ultp*, and if it's at ugen* you likely have a problem... ___ 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
Re: issues in XFCE 4.6 (looking for a working WM)
snip xfce-4.6 is running here on a couple of machines, with none of those problems. Those actually sound more like xorg problems. I don't think it's XORG for a couple of reasons: * when I first updated xfce, it didn't update xorg, and it was all working fine under xfce4 4.4 * problems don't seem to exist under fluxbox or twm and a couple minor ones: * XFCE menu doesn't work Which one? In what way? I miss the menu editor... The main menu off of the panel, which has a default icon of the rodent over a blue X. By doesn't work, I mean when you click on it nothing happens. snip portdowngrade and some work can probably do it. If your problems are really xorg related, changing window manager won't help. Looked into portdowngrade, and I may look into that further at some point. At this point, fluxbox seems to be pretty cool, and seems to be working. Keith ___ 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
Re: issues in XFCE 4.6 (looking for a working WM)
Try a smaller one, like evilwm. It's (pretty much) all command line. For example, you would open up a term and launch firefox from there (# firefox). Once you get the hang of its keybindings, which are vi-like, it's fun and easy. It's also compatible with aterm, which will give you transparent terminals (if that's something that interests you). Also, I highly recommend that you check out http://xwinman.org. I found it to be fun and informative to peruse the list of wm's there. Thanks for the link. http://xwinman.org is pretty cool. I'm currently playing with fluxbox, and that seems to be working pretty well. ___ 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
Re: issues in XFCE 4.6 (looking for a working WM)
At this point, I guess I'm looking for recommendations on a window manager. Here are the major problems with XFCE4 4.6: * 20% probability of starting X without crashing and locking computer * 20-25 minutes to start X (was about 1 under XFCE4 4.4) * 0% chance of shutting down successfully if X is running * can't exit X once started (switches monitor to power save mode and hangs) * maximum run time of 8 hours (average around 5 hours) * won't save settings and a couple minor ones: * XFCE menu doesn't work * missing icons, even after theme is changed from rodent to tango None of these were issues under XFCE4 4.4, but I'm guessing there's not a good way to get 4.4 back... What other window managers do people use, or what would you recommend and why? Thanks. ___ 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
Re: issues in XFCE 4.6
Keith Seyffarth said the following on 2009-03-16 02:38: Sorry, should have had you do rmconfig-recursive first. There's a OK. I'll have to think about that. It is mostly working now, having added an xrandr line to the .xinitrc file to fix the resolution. What line was that? xrandr -s 1 ___ 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
Re: issues in XFCE 4.6
That -k option to make is unnecessary and possibly bad. Stop using it for now. Well, it doesn't really sound like it is *good*, but I was just trying to get X to install again. Thanks for the warning, though. cd /usr/ports/x11/xorg make clean OK, it cleans everything make config-recursive (choose configuration for everything) Should there have been some kind of user interaction here? A series of questions? A screen with boxes to X for different options? What I got was: # make config-recursive === Setting user-specified options for xorg-7.4 and dependencies # It took about 5 minutes, but there was no prompt for input... make install Same problem. The syntax is a little different from make than from portinstall, but it's the same error. XORG can't install because XORG-drivers can't install because xf86-video-via can't install. Anyone have another suggestion? At this point, I need to get X installed so I can even consider a window manager. Instead of waiting for the ports to build, install the package: pkg_add -r xorg That's not working either: # pkg_add xorg pkg_add: can't stat package file 'xorg' # pkg_add -r xorg Error: FTP Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.0-release/Latest/xorg.tbz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) pkg_add: unable to fetch 'ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.0-release/Latest/xorg.tbz' by URL Keith ___ 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
Re: issues in XFCE 4.6
xorg-drivers requires the drivers it has been configured to depend on, which does not necessarily include xf86-video-via. Go to the xorg-drivers port and do a 'make config' to change which drivers it will depend on. This did work to get XORG to install. Now I'm trying to get XFCE installed again, and see if I get better results. Thanks Erik. Keith ___ 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
Re: issues in XFCE 4.6
Well, I finally got XORG to install again, and then installed XFCE 4.6. Still no menus, and huge screen resolution. However, Ctl-Alt-[Keypad Minus] will zoom in on part of the desktop area, making text at least readable on screen. Any other suggestions on getting XFCE to have its menu again? Or on just manually a) launching the settings manager, or b) editing the settings manually? ___ 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
Re: issues in XFCE 4.6
You could try hitting ALT+F2 and typing xfce4-settings-manager or xfce4-settings-editor to run these. I was able to set some things this way, but some settings don't take (such as screen resolution). also, changing the theme to Tango didn't fix the missing icons (yes, icons-tango-0.8.1_1 and icons-tango-extras-0.1.0_1 are both installed) As for the screen resolution, I upgraded one more machine today and it went down to 1024x768 instead of 1280x1024. This was the only machine I had had in the past to adjust resolution by using XFCE's display applet. Every other machine would start directly at the correct resolution. In the previous XFCE version, the Display applet would correctly set this, but not in 4.6. Although the correct resolution was selectable, it just resulted to a blank screen. Finally, I used xrandr to adjust the resolution. This maybe of some help to you as well: Adding xrandr to the .xinitrc file seems to have the screen resolution and flicker fixed. One other thing, though, the exit button (from the panel) now only has the option to Quit, which is doesn't do. Fortunately, this is pretty easy to work around, just shutdown from an xterm. Keith ___ 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
Re: issues in XFCE 4.6
Sorry, should have had you do rmconfig-recursive first. There's a OK. I'll have to think about that. It is mostly working now, having added an xrandr line to the .xinitrc file to fix the resolution. snip Are you running FreeBSD 6.0? I don't know if xorg-7.4 will work or even build with that. You may have to upgrade to 7.1-release or -stable before going on. Yeah, it's 6.0, but xorg was working just fine until Thursday when I upgraded from XFCE4 4.4 to 4.6; and it was reported from pkg_info as xorg 7.4 something. Keith S. ___ 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
Re: issues in XFCE 4.6
I haven't been folowing this discussion but have you tried to delete the .config folder in your user's home and start xfce without it? that forces it to redo the config from scratch. I didn't actually try that, but at one point I did create a new user and that user has the same issues. ___ 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
Re: issues in XFCE 4.6
Your problem is not xfce but xorg. It went through massive changes in 7.1 and it's now mandatory to have a /etc/X11/xorg.conf. You have to add Option AllowEmptyInput Off statement as last line in ServerLayout section. Doing console command Xorg -config /etc/X11/xorg.conf will build you one. By the way i used the package version of xfce4 on 7.1 and it's working just fine after i added the above xorg fixes. That line was already in xorg.conf (it was necessary to get a mouse to work after the last xorg update in January). However, I did not have it as the last line in the ServerLayout section. I moved it to the last line, but that didn't make a difference. There's still no XFCE menu, and without the ability to update the settings in XFCE, it's pretty much unusable... Keith ___ 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
Re: issues in XFCE 4.6
As i said the packages worked for me. Blow away the xfce and xorg ports and do the xorg mega package and the xfce mega package. if that fails then bkup your user data and install a clean virgin version of 7.1 and the xorg and xfce packages. Does anyone have an option other than blowing away XORG? I'd really rather not spend the next several days trying to get XORG installed again. Really, if there's just a command line way to get to the XFCE settings and change the resolution, it would probably be usable. I'm really not too concerned about broken icons. Keith S. ___ 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
Re: issues in XFCE 4.6
As i said the packages worked for me. Blow away the xfce and xorg ports and do the xorg mega package and the xfce mega package. if that fails then bkup your user data and install a clean virgin version of 7.1 and the xorg and xfce packages. It looks like this was a step in the WRONG direction. Having removed XORG, it won't install. It appears that xorg requires xorg-drivers (understandable), and xorg-drivers requires xf86-video-via (OK), and xf86-video-via requires a PCI Video Card to be installed. make clean install -k in x11-drivers/xorg-drivers will make xorg-drivers install, but make clean install -k in x11/xorg won't install because xf86-video-via is ignored. Anyone have another suggestion? At this point, I need to get X installed so I can even consider a window manager. Keith S. ___ 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
Re: issues in XFCE 4.6
Manolis, Thanks for the quick reply. Did you follow the rest of the instructions for xfce 4.6 in UPDATING? There are a few ports to deinstall, preferably before upgrading. A little problem with that: after having the ports tree updated I could not simply make deinstall them, as the old port directories were no longer present. I could use stg like pkg_delete, but in the end, I preferred using pkg_rmleaves and remove the entire xfce4.4 related ports (including the libs, mousepad, Thunar and a few add-ons) and just installed 4.6 afterwards. It all works fine. I'll try that and see if it helps. I did pkg_delete the specified packages (I've never experienced make deinstall working. It always errors that the packages/ports are already installed and can't be uninstalled, and that I should try make deinstall... The following is a list of the xfce related ports (minus some extra add-ons) in my system. Check whether you are missing something: That looks like the same list I have. thanks for passing it on. Keith ___ 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
Re: issues in XFCE 4.6
The install for 4.6.0 is too complicated (hence error-prone). I'm sticking with my current version of xfce, which I like a lot. That may well have been a better choice at this point... ___ 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
Re: issues in XFCE 4.6
snip longer present. I could use stg like pkg_delete, but in the end, I preferred using pkg_rmleaves and remove the entire xfce4.4 related ports I wasn't able to find pkg_rmleaves, so I tried pkg_delete on all the related packages I could find. (including the libs, mousepad, Thunar and a few add-ons) and just installed 4.6 afterwards. It all works fine. after installing again, I'm still in the same boat. The screen resolution is too fine to make it usable, the menus are missing, and (as expected) many icons are missing. It looks like once you start down the (mislead?) path of upgrading to 4.6, there is no going back to a working version, so I need to get this one working. Since the XFCE menu is not supported in 4.6 yet, is there a file I can edit to get the screen resolution and refresh rate set correctly (important), and to switch the theme (much less important). Keith ___ 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
Re: issues in XFCE 4.6
snip Please make sure these ports are installed: x11-themes/gtk-xfce-engine installed as: gtk-xfce-engine-2.6.0 An XFCE engine for GTK 2.0 x11-themes/icons-tango-extras installed as: icons-tango-extras-0.1.0_1 A extra set of icons from the Tango project snip I am afraid I can do both in my install from the XFCE menu. (Settings = Display and Settings = Appearance) I don't know why you are not getting the menus. I would guess that, as per the instructions provided, these are available from the menu. ust can't get the menu working... Could you try creating a new user account and see if it works? It could be something wrong in your dot files. New user gets a completely different interface. XFCE and components don't seem to launch, nor do they seem to be available. Not only is there no menu, there's no panel from which to launch the menu, and the panel won't start from the command line. I've got another system with XFCE that I will be upgrading tonight - I'll let you know if it works out differently. Let me know. It would be nice to have a usable computer again. It's rather frustrating that any time there is an update for something X-related, it seems that if you're going to make the upgrade, you need to be ready to have your computer unusable for 3-10 days... Keith ___ 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
Re: issues in XFCE 4.6
snip Well, this leads me to believe you don't have an .xinitrc file in the new user's home directory Create an ~/.xinitrc with exec startxfce4 OK, did that. as the only content and try again. The panel is there (and displayed icons on the desktop, weird). However, the menu doesn't work for that user either. snip Just completed the upgrade on the second one. This is running 7-STABLE I'm running 6. amd64. I used the pkg_rmleaves method and removed xfce4.4 and its leaf I'll try installing that from the port and removing again. ports. Compiling completed without problems. On first start some icons were indeed missing, but where fixed as soon as I selected the tango theme. I can send you a complete list of the ports that were built if you wish, but I think there is probably something else that's wrong in your installation. How did you install? I've tried portupgrade -R after deleting the specified packages), then deleting XFCE4 manually when that didn't work to install and left X crashing and then used make clean install then after manually deleting everything this morning I used portinstall -R making from the port directory and using portinstall seem to have gotten me to the same place... Keith ___ 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
Re: issues in XFCE 4.6
I went through pkg_rmleaves and deleted xfce and then everything it exposed, then re-installed using portinstall -R This installed 32 packages when I had only deleted 31, so something got installed that wasn't previously. Unfortunately, this still didn't fix the problems. The XFCE menu still isn't available, and the screen resolution is really horrible (did the developers assume everyone has a 30 monitor?) Anyway, what I really need is to know how to manually fix the configuration since access to settings isn't available through XFCE in 4.6 so I can make this usable until XFCE can be fixed. Unless someone else has another idea... ___ 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
Re: issues with X not loading
Yes, please see /usr/ports/UPDATING, Xorg was updated. OK, I went through and ran # portupgrade -rf libxcb which took a while to update everything, but did so without any errors (or at least without any that I caught). However, now when I startx, X loads, but I have no mouse in X. (The mouse works fine when X isn't running.) These errors are present when I switch terminals and return to the terminal X was running on: ** (xfce-mcs-manager:4299): CRITICAL **: find_master: assertion `mixer_handle != -1' failed (xfce-mcs-manager:4299): xfce-mcs-manager-WARNING **: Module /usr/local/lib/xfce4/mcs-plugins/xfce4-iconbox_settings.so cannot be opened (GModule (/usr/local/lib/xfce4/mcs-plugins/xfce4-iconbox_settings.so) initialization check failed: Incorrect module version) (Thunar:4302): thunar-vfs-WARNING **: Failed to connect to the HAL daemon: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory I have tried uninstalling (using pkg_delete) and reinstalling (using portinstall) hal, but still get this problem. I also tried adding AllowEmptyInput off in xorg.conf, but that gives an error when starting X that AllowEmptyInput is not valid. I also added the path to hald (/usr/local/sbin) to the path in /etc/rc, but still get the same error. I'm not seeing anything obvious in the /var/log/Xorg.0.log, though I do see where it sees AllowEmptyInput as on... If it makes a difference, it's a PS/2 mouse and keyboard (I'm not sure if X is receiving keyboard input, but I'm not sure how to test that without being able to click something to open some kind of window...) Thanks for any further tips. Keith ___ 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
Re: issues with X not loading
I also tried adding AllowEmptyInput off in xorg.conf, but that gives an error when starting X that AllowEmptyInput is not valid. In section ServerLayout, add Option AllowEmptyInput Off Thakns. This worked. I had the syntax incorrect. however, I thought this wasn't supposed to be necessar after the updates to hal on the 27th? ___ 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
issues with X not loading
On freebsd 6.0, I started having issues with X on Friday, and by Sunday, clicking buttons on the XFCE toolbar or choosing menu items from the XFCE menu weren't working. Subsequent to this, X would just hang when I run startx. I think what may have started this was trying to portupgrade gnucash, because it looks like some port items that were dependencies for other things (xorg-protos, for example) have been removed from the ports system. so, I tried portupgrade for xfce4, which tells me everything is current. Then I tried portupgrade xorg, which did upgrade a lot of things. This got me to a point where I can run startx, and rather than hanging, it, um, crashes gracefully. I receive this error: (==) Using config file: /etc/X11/xorg.conf Parse error on line 75 of section Files in file /etc/X11/xorg.conf RgbPath is not a valid keyword in this section. (EE) Problem parsing the config file (EE) Error parsing the config file Fatal server error: no screens found giving up. I can comment out line 75 referred to above, but that seems to put me back to where I was before trying to upgrade: startx hangs the computer... Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks, Keith S. ___ 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
Setting up a PDF printer
What do I need to install to make printing a pdf from the print command in an appliction as an option. It looks like panda may do this, but I'm unsure. My immediate goal is to be able to print invoices to .pdf from gnucash. ___ 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
Re: Setting up a PDF printer
If you're using the cups printing subsystem you can use the cups-pdf port/package. You end up with the pdf's deposited in /var/spool/cups-pdf/USERNAME. I don't have any printing installed currently. I may be getting a printer for this machine at some point in the future (at which point I'll have to figure out how to get printing to a printer working). When I run # which cups the response is: cups: Command not found. would # portinstall cups install this printing option? or would I have to install something else? Keith ___ 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
Firefox 3 problems - SLOW...
Has anyone else had problems with Firefox 3 installed from the ports being massively slow? Unlike on Windows, where the load time for the application is much slower (takes roughly twice as long as FF2 did), but once the application is loaded, it seems to be about the same, on my BSD box, the application loads in a little under half the time, but each page load takes much, much longer (8 minutes for the google firefox start page, 16 minutes for the welcome to Firefox 3 page, 10 minutes for the mozillazine home page, 6 minutes for each mozallazine forum page). On top of this, once the page is loaded, it take 90-120 seconds before you can interact with a page, and even then, interaction is slow - 5 seconds between clicking in the scroll bar and the window moving, 15 seconds between clicking a link and the browser acknowledging the click... Is there maybe an issue with the port, or does the application just not work well on FreeBSD? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firefox 3 problems - SLOW...
I did experience this, and I had to tweak the following settings in about:config before the experience became usable: network.http.pipelining: true network.http.pipelining.maxrequests: 10 network.http.pipelining.ssl: true The image loading and display code seems to have changed significantly, and some unintended behaviour seems to have been introduced. (I also get ugly black boxes images if there is an resized image in the loaded page.) Johnathan, thanks a ton, that seems to have corrected it. We're now back to nearly the performance of FF2. Though I haven't seen the black images issue yet. Thanks, Keith S ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: can't upgrade - catch-22
try: setenv X11BASE /usr/X11R6 then rebuild portupgrade. That still gives the 'cannot set X11BASE' error... If I run env after setting the X11BASE as instructed above, it is set, but I still get the error. Keith ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: can't upgrade - catch-22
try: setenv X11BASE /usr/X11R6 then rebuild portupgrade. That still gives the 'cannot set X11BASE' error... If I run env after setting the X11BASE as instructed above, it is set, but I still get the error. snip Silly question: are you running env as root or as your user ID? i.e. are you running env as the user who needs this variable? Yes, silly question, but I know exactly where you are coming from. I am executing setenv as root, and the environment variable is getting set as root, but I still get the same error. (and I did run whoami on that terminal after getting this email to make sure.) Keith ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: can't upgrade - catch-22
Do you have anything custom set in etc/make.conf? Just a couple things for Perl. Try putting the following in etc/make.conf: USE_NONDEFAULT_X11BASE= yes X11BASE= /usr/X11R6 Cool. That seems to have worked. Odd that it didn't when I tried it previously... Oh, well, it looks like portupgrade is rebuilding now, so I can probably get x upgraded after that. Thanks, Keith ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: can't upgrade - catch-22
On FreeBSD before 6.2 ports system unfortunately can not set default
X11BASE by itself so please help it a bit by setting
X11BASE=${LOCALBASE} in make.conf.
On the other hand, if you do wish to use non-default X11BASE, please
set variable USE_NONDEFAULT_X11BASE.
However, even if I edit /etc/make.conf and add either
X11BASE=${LOCALBASE} or X11BASE=/usr/X11R6, I still get this
error.
Any suggestions or recommendations on how to get ruby installed? I
think once I have that installed, I should be able to get port-upgrade
fixed and then maybe be able to get some patches downloaded... I would
really appreciate any tips or suggestions.
output of uname -a:
FreeBSD computer.weif.net 6.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #0: Thu Nov
3 09:36:13 UTC 2005
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
There was major change about Xorg; For more details, plase see here:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2007-May/001131.html
I think the upgrade was/is mandatory, not optional ;;
Thanks for the tip, but unfortunately it isn't really very helpful. I
guess I didn't clarify the catch-22 in my previous post.
In order to get X upgraded, I need to get portupgrade working. This
requires that X already be upgraded. This, in return requires
portupgrade...
I was starting with trying to get Ruby because that addressed the
vulnerabilities I was trying it initially address. However, that's
pretty irrelevant at the moment.
Where I'm stuck is getting either portupgrade working or getting X
upgraded, both of which seem to be dependent on the other having
already happened...
Thanks,
Keith
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Re: can't upgrade - catch-22
Make sure your ports tree is 100% up to date. Got it, I think. Ran cvsup again, got a bunch of stuff... Uninstall portupgrade all it's dependencies. Have done, as far as I can tell. cd /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portupgrade make install clean Generates the same error mentioned previously - can't set default X11BASE. Setting X11BASE in make.conf does not make a difference. Read and follow the instructions in UPDATING for updating xorg Again, requires portupgrade, and it appears that just about anything (including portupgrade) requires that X already be upgraded... Keith ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: can't upgrade - catch-22
Why don't you just manually remove Xorg and then install it with portinstall? ie. pkg_delete -f xorg\* That'll remove all packages that start with the characters xorg. Install the newer version of Xorg then upgrade portupgrade, then upgrade the packages that depended on xorg. Well, now that x is uninstalled, you still can't install it without having already installed it... It still generates the 'can't set default xbase' error. Any recommendations now that X has been uninstalled? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
can't upgrade - catch-22
I posted this about a month ago, but haven't heard anything, so I'm
trying again:
When trying to re-install ruby on my system, I receive this error:
On FreeBSD before 6.2 ports system unfortunately can not set default
X11BASE by itself so please help it a bit by setting
X11BASE=${LOCALBASE} in make.conf.
On the other hand, if you do wish to use non-default X11BASE, please
set variable USE_NONDEFAULT_X11BASE.
However, even if I edit /etc/make.conf and add either
X11BASE=${LOCALBASE} or X11BASE=/usr/X11R6, I still get this
error.
Any suggestions or recommendations on how to get ruby installed? I
think once I have that installed, I should be able to get port-upgrade
fixed and then maybe be able to get some patches downloaded... I would
really appreciate any tips or suggestions.
output of uname -a:
FreeBSD computer.weif.net 6.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #0: Thu Nov
3 09:36:13 UTC 2005
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
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problem upgrading
When trying to re-install ruby on my system, I receive this error:
On FreeBSD before 6.2 ports system unfortunately can not set default
X11BASE by itself so please help it a bit by setting
X11BASE=${LOCALBASE} in make.conf.
On the other hand, if you do wish to use non-default X11BASE, please
set variable USE_NONDEFAULT_X11BASE.
However, even if I edit /etc/make.conf and add either
X11BASE=${LOCALBASE} or X11BASE=/usr/X11R6, I still get this
error.
Any suggestions or recommendations on how to get ruby installed?
output of uname -a:
FreeBSD computer.weif.net 6.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #0: Thu Nov
3 09:36:13 UTC 2005
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
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