Major 2.18 Issues...

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

Nikolaj Thygesen wrote:
> Could the sore need of attention to the admin tools be the reason why I
> can't launch "gnome-system-monitor" and "baobab" as anyone else but
> root?? I get messages indicating "lack of access rights for /dev/mem"
> (writing from aging memory here).

No.  Both work just fine on FreeBSD.  What are your perms on /dev/mem? 
They should be 0640 root:kmem.  That is vital since libgtop is setgid 
kmem, and must be able to read /dev/mem.

Joe

> 
> 	Nikolaj Thygesen
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-gnome at freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-gnome at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Joe Marcus Clarke
> Sent: 13. april 2007 23:09
> To: jahnke at sonatabio.com
> Cc: freebsd-gnome at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Major 2.18 Issues...
> 
> On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 08:23 -0700, Frank Jahnke wrote:
>> I have had a great deal of trouble with the upgrade to 2.18.  Printing
>> does not work reliably in Abiword or Gnumeric and I cannot access any
> of
>> the admin functions from within Gnome.
> 
> You need to add either gnome_enable="YES" or
> system_tools_backends_enable="YES" to have a prayer with the Admin
> tools.  Even then, they are sorely needing some work to make them play
> well with FreeBSD.
> 
>> So I rebuilt the entire system, starting with the kernel and world.  I
>> deleted Gnome by the method mentioned in the FAQ, and reinstalled it,
>> X11, and all of the gtk applications.  Unfortunately the problems
>> remain.  I am now on 2.18.1 and 6.2-R-p3; all ports are up-to-date.
>>
>> I use CUPS to print from a print server, and cups-lpr has always
> worked
>> in the past.  It does work on every application other than Abiword and
>> Gnumeric (that I have tested since the rebuild, at least).  The print
>> preview is erratic -- it works sometimes and not others.  I am unable
> to
>> set page margins in Gnumeric, and printing always crashes.
> 
> I have no problems printing from Gnumeric or AbiWord.  Print Preview
> also seems to work reliably for me.  But I don't use CUPS.  It looks
> like you're not using cups-lpr, but libgnomeprint is providing the CUPS
> printing support.  Looks like there might be a problem with
> libgnomeprint and CUPS.  If you get real crashes, you will have to
> follow the procedure at http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/bugging.html
> to get a useful backtrace.
> 
> Joe
> 


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