Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:00:48 -0800 (PST) From: chrisa@uvic.ca To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My GNOME2 cannot work! Message-ID: <54949.142.104.193.193.1226966448.squirrel@wm3.uvic.ca> In-Reply-To: <20081117054349.GX81783@hoeg.nl> References: <200811161150196091110@Gmail.com> <200811162022198288506@Gmail.com> <790a9fff0811160937j3b94ac26q251f2bc2abc9b953@mail.gmail.com> <54489.142.104.193.193.1226872988.squirrel@wm3.uvic.ca> <20081117054349.GX81783@hoeg.nl>
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> * chrisa@uvic.ca <chrisa@uvic.ca> wrote: >> I have the same problem with my gnome install. I'm running 7.0-RELEASE >> #0 >> with packages from 7-stable, and the same thing is happening. And the >> permissions for /var/tmp are set correctly: when I look in /var/tmp >> after >> the failure, it has created the file: it just claims that it can't lock >> it. > > Be sure to run FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE (RELENG_7), not 7.0-RELEASE. As > mentioned in previous emails, be sure to run the packages on the > operating system version they have been compiled for. > > -- > Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> > WWW: http://80386.nl/ > For some reason, I thought that packages for any version of 7 would work on any other version of 7, so I thought that getting packages from 7-stable would be a good way to get up-to-date packages instead of nearly year-old packages from 7.0-release. Oh well. I installed gnome from ports and it works fine, so you were right about the packages. Thanks, Chris A
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