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Date:      22 Feb 2003 02:47:03 -0500
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        "P.U.Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de>
Cc:        freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: XFree86 and gnome2 pains
Message-ID:  <1045900023.95769.23.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030222080742.V254@small.pukruppa.de>
References:  <20030222080742.V254@small.pukruppa.de>

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On Sat, 2003-02-22 at 02:38, P. U. Kruppa wrote:
> Hi!
>=20
> Please note: these are no vital problems, I am just trying things
> on my private (4.8-PRERELEASE) machine.
>=20
> 1) To freshly install XFree86-4 and gnome2 I completely deinstalled
>    all gnome2 and XFree86 packages and removed all kinds of X11/
>    or X11R6/ directories.
> 2) # pkgdb -F ran cleanly without any complaints
>    Then one should be able to run
> 3) # portinstall -R XFree86 (and configure XF86Config) and
> 4) # portinstall -R gnome2 (and put gnome-session in one's
>    xinitrc)
>=20
> All this does not work for me, neither XFree86-4 nor gnome2 will
> install cleanly this way.
> The problems seem to originate from these packages
> - imake
> - freetype
> - gstreamer (and plugins?)
> - fontconfig
>=20
> I also tried to use some binaries from my 4.7-RELEASE, but
> the best I can get is the startup gnome splash screen - then
> X crashes.
>=20
> In case someone is interested I can reproduce this (or I will
> wait for binaries).

Without actual errors, it's impossible to troubleshoot.  However, a
simple:

# cd /usr/ports/x11/gnome2
# make install clean

Worked for me.

Joe

>=20
>=20
> Regards,
>=20
> Uli.
>=20
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> +-----------------------------------+
> |        Peter Ulrich Kruppa        |
> |          -  Wuppertal -           |
> |              Germany              |
> +-----------------------------------+
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