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Date:      Wed, 15 May 2013 06:53:47 +0200
From:      dirk.meyer@dinoex.sub.org (Dirk Meyer)
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: error on fvwm startup on 9.1-RELEASE
Message-ID:  <JRxlLn62yJ@dmeyer.dinoex.sub.org>
References:  </bV0nNnx%2Bt@dmeyer.dinoex.sub.org> <201305150023.r4F0MwVw046360@fire.js.berklix.net>

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Hallo Julian H. Stacey,

> Nor me either, I tried all this to narrow it down:
>     {
>     I tried fvwm -debug & ls -ltr /var/log
>     & tinkering with original RC file, & patching out bits of system.fvwmrc,
>     assuming something failing around

It fails even with a very plain setup.

>     but no luck, I didn't persevere, as I noted:
>     	cd /usr/ports/x11-wm/fvwm/files/ ; /bin/ls -1 | wc -l # 41
>     	cd /usr/ports/x11-wm/fvwm2/files/ ; /bin/ls -1 | wc -l # 2
>     so wondered if you'd had problems feeding back to fvwm.org, & if I should
>     just move to fvwm2 & customise from there ?

>     > The buildlog doesn't differ enought.
>     Differ from what ? another earlier that works ?

Buildlog on 8.3 (working) and 9.1

>     The amd64 laptop I'm testing on has 3 boot partitions with 9.1-RELEASE,
>     9.0-RELEASE & 8.3-RELEASE I just re-installed Version 1.24r on all
>     3, & starting with both default /usr/local/lib/X11/fvwm/system.fvwmrc &
>     my customised system.fvwmrc, I am seeing the same problem on all 6 
>     combinations of 3 x OS-version x 2 x RC files :

It may be a regression in some depedency ?
USE_XORG=       xbitmaps xpm xext x11 xmu

As I don't have a problem on my FreeBSD 8.3 box with older X.

> I took a quick look at various bits of http://fvwm.org/ 
> Should we ask there ? Or would answer just be "Try 2.x"

Yes, 1.x ist "not supported" for some long time.

kind regards Dirk

- Dirk Meyer, Im Grund 4, 34317 Habichtswald, Germany



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