Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 16:32:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Saurabh Gupta <thegage@kashmir.etowns.net> To: <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Cc: <freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org> Subject: Xfree86, GNOME, KDE freezing over Message-ID: <20021016163109.F83810-100000@kashmir.etowns.net>
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Hi, I am running a current from 22nd of september. I compiled gnome2 using the ports method. after some help from people in this list i finally installed it. Now as soon as I startup gnome in X the computer freezes. So I compiled and installed kde3 and the same thing happens. Simple X with just twm seemed to run fine(xterm and a whole bunch of X utilities and all), untill I displayed a remote netscape on this display, which is when this froze over again. Other things that freeze the computer are mozilla running under twm within 10 seconds of startup even just the sawfish window manager freezes as soon as I resize any window. I have no idea how to get more info or catch this bug It just gives no error nothing, even in a generic Kernel with all the debugging features turned on! ANY CLUES, SUGGESTIONS Any one running these applications on current successfully? Anyways here is what I did further. It seems as if the problem is in some package that is used by all these applications. So I gathered a list of dependency packages for all these and started looking for common members. There are tons no surprise there. among all however the common members seem to be Dependency: libiconv-1.8_1 Dependency: lcms-1.08 Dependency: freetype2-2.1.2 of these lcms and libiconv seem to be ruled out in XFree-* dependency list. So the most/(only?) common package in all these software seems to be freetype2-2.1.2 Another thing i noticed is that kde starts up fine : displays a couple of windows and then right around then while displaying one of the windows it freezes half way through. Sort of leaving a feeling that it froze over while rendering some graphics or doing font manipulation calculation...... is freetype the real culprit, I do not know! ofcourse all this could very well be no more than a hunch. Any help will be very much appreciated. thanks and best regards, Saurabh Gupta To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message
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