Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 20:08:06 -0600 (MDT) From: Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu> To: Brandon Stewart <rostewa2@vt.edu> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: window maker install Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980714200543.8451A-100000@peloton.physics.montana.edu> In-Reply-To: <35ABBDB2.BA494A6B@vt.edu>
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Hi, > On the windowmaker port, when making install, it pops up about five > windows which have no close buttons, and are usually black, but > sometimes have a pattern of a messy desk. After I kill all of these > (there is nothing I can do with them anyway), there are several > file-selection dialog windows. When I just hit cancel on all of these, > it stops, saying that it cannot make directories (see below). A few people have seen this (me included) - others have not. It's weird - it's clearly something happening w/ the WindowMaker use of mkdirhier but I haven't figured out WHAT is going on. Brian Handy, the maintainer, also doesn't know what's going on and I've had him sitting at my machine. There are a couple of work arounds: - use the package - install on the console (NOT in X) Brett *********************************************************** Brett Taylor brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu http://peloton.physics.montana.edu/brett/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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