Date: 03 May 2002 14:15:36 -0400 14 Fri May 3 10:15:36 2002 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Gnome Problem After Portupgrade Message-ID: <200205031815.g43IFaYP023328@gyros.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <00a201c1f2c2$fdf19610$6e2a6ba5@lc.ca.gov> References: <010101c1f206$8c69bcf0$6e2a6ba5@lc.ca.gov> <1020441810.784.14.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com> <00a201c1f2c2$fdf19610$6e2a6ba5@lc.ca.gov>
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Message-Id: <1020449736.23089.6.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 On Fri, 2002-05-03 at 13:53, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Joe Marcus Clarke" <marcus@marcuscom.com> > To: "Drew Tomlinson" <drew@mykitchentable.net> > Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> > Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 9:03 AM > Subject: Re: Gnome Problem After Portupgrade > > > > On Thu, 2002-05-02 at 15:24, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > > > I attempted to use portupgrade -rR to update gnome and all of it's > > > dependencies. I had a few problems along the way when portupgrade > > > failed to download one of the required tarballs and left my system > in an > > > inconsistent state. I've worked through the issues and finally got > the > > > upgrade completed but receive this error (in a window) when starting > > > gnome: > > > > > > Desk Guide Alert > > > > > > GNOME Desktop Guide (Pager) > > > > > > You are not running a GNOME Compliant Window Manager. GNOME support > by > > > the window manager is strongly recommended for proper Desk Guide > > > Operation. > > > > > > I'm using Sawfish that installs with the gnome port. I've used > > > pkg_deinstall to remove sawfish-gnome and then rebuilt it from ports > > > using portinstall. Same error. Any ideas how to fix this short of > > > rebuiling gnome in its entirety? > > > > Can you send me the build log from sawfish-gnome as well as a > screenshot > > of the error? Thanks. > > I'd be happy to. I'll send the build log privately to keep traffic down > on the list. But how do I save the screenshot as a file? I can't get > anything to run on the gnome desktop although the screensaver will kick > after a while. I'll describe the window and maybe that will be enough > for you to know what it looks like. > Thanks for the description, but I actually wanted to see the GUI (window decorations ,etc.). You can use the Gimp to acquire such a screenshot. xv should also work. I'll see what I can do with the build log. Joe -- PGP Key: http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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