From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Aug 29 11:23:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from bw150zhb.bluewin.ch (bw150zhb.bluewin.ch [195.186.1.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 403BA37B423 for ; Tue, 29 Aug 2000 11:23:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from drowzee (bw1-198pub90.bluewin.ch [195.186.198.90]) by bw150zhb.bluewin.ch (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id UAA08094; Tue, 29 Aug 2000 20:22:37 +0200 (MET DST) From: "Oliver Fehr" To: "Andrew Gallatin" Cc: Subject: RE: Problem with netscape 4.75 Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 20:22:07 +0200 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <14763.45723.721917.417418@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.3018.1300 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Wow++ I did what you suggested and: It works! I've removed things bevor but I must have missed some of it. BTW: It DID NOT run the installation script blindly, it's even worse: My eyes were open when I did it - it was very late, or early, however 8) Thanx Oliver -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Gallatin [mailto:gallatin@cs.duke.edu] Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2000 3:17 PM To: Oliver Fehr Cc: obrien@freebsd.org; freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Problem with netscape 4.75 Oliver Fehr writes: > Netscape Communicator 4.75. > The system was cvsuped and completely rebuilt from 4.1-STABLE about a week > ago. Ports are also up to date. /usr/compat/osf1 is there. > I tried 'ns-install' first then 'make deinstall' and 'make install' Running ns-install almost certainly screwed things up beyond belief by creating some osf1 style X directories in the base filesystem. You should NEVER blindly run installation scripts for commercial apps running on a foreign ABI; this is why we have a ports collection. I'd suggest deleting the netscape & osf1_base packages. Then rm -rf the folling directories and/or links /compat/osf1 /usr/compat/osf1 /usr/lib/X11 /usr/bin/X11 Now re-install osf1_base from the ports collection. Then install netscape from the ports collection. I'm not sure if the above is enough. If its not, re-do the package removals & rm -rf's. Then carefully look at the ns-install program and try to remove any traces of what it may have installed, including directories. Good luck, Drew ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message