Problem with Gnome2 Installation

lawrence.petrykanyn at sympatico.ca lawrence.petrykanyn at sympatico.ca
Mon Aug 27 19:11:22 PDT 2007


   Hi,

   I just installed FreeBSD6.2 onto my home computer.  I chose the
   'minimum installation' option.  I then installed the ports tree by
   'portsnap fetch', followed by 'portsnap extract', and then 'portsnap
   fetch upgrade'.  Then I successfully installed Xorg via the ports
   tree.  I then configured and tested X11.  So far, all went very well.

   Next, I wanted to install the Gnome Desktop Environment, so 'cd
   /usr/ports/x11/gnome2' followed by 'make install clean'.  The
   installation went well for over two hours, and then it stopped with
   the message that I have included from the script file below.

   I have a few questions:
   1.  How can I continue, and complete, the installation of Gnome?
   2.  What, besides general Googling and checking the FreeBSD archives,
   can I do when the installation generates an error message like the one
   below that is merely descriptive and not prescriptive?  (I'd like to
   not have to come running to this forum every time an installation
   doesn't succeed.  I realize that a learning curve is involved, but I'm
   willing to do a bit of research if I can find the right resources.  I
   did look at /usr/ports/UPDATING but didn't find anything that looked
   relevant.)
   3.  In the past (5.4), I have used 'portupgrade' to maintain my ports
   tree.  I understand that 'portsnap' is a new utility that is supposed
   to be easier to use and more reliable.  So does this mean that I can
   do all of my ports tree maintenance with 'portsnap' and never use
   'portupgrade' again?

   Any advice, suggestions, or comments would be appreciated!

   Thank you,
   Larry

   Error Message **********
                                          (Excerpt)
   *
   *
   *
   ===>   gnome-control-center-2.18.1_1 depends on shared library: xml2.5
   - found
   ===>   gnome-control-center-2.18.1_1 depends on shared library: xslt.2
   - found
   ===>   gnome-control-center-2.18.1_1 depends on shared library: linc.1
   - found
   ===>   gnome-control-center-2.18.1_1 depends on shared library:
   metacity-private.0 - not found
   ===>    Verifying install for metacity-private.0 in
   /usr/ports/x11-wm/metacity
   ===>  Building for metacity-2.18.5
   gmake  all-recursive
   gmake[1]: Entering directory
   `/usr/ports/x11-wm/metacity/work/metacity-2.18.5'
   Making all in src
   gmake[2]: Entering directory
   `/usr/ports/x11-wm/metacity/work/metacity-2.18.5/src'
   gmake  all-recursive
   gmake[3]: Entering directory
   `/usr/ports/x11-wm/metacity/work/metacity-2.18.5/src'
   Making all in wm-tester
   gmake[4]: Entering directory
   `/usr/ports/x11-wm/metacity/work/metacity-2.18.5/src/wm-tester'
   gmake[4]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
   gmake[4]: Leaving directory
   `/usr/ports/x11-wm/metacity/work/metacity-2.18.5/src/wm-tester'
   Making all in tools
   gmake[4]: Entering directory
   `/usr/ports/x11-wm/metacity/work/metacity-2.18.5/src/tools'
   gmake[4]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
   gmake[4]: Leaving directory
   `/usr/ports/x11-wm/metacity/work/metacity-2.18.5/src/tools'
   Making all in themes
   gmake[4]: Entering directory
   `/usr/ports/x11-wm/metacity/work/metacity-2.18.5/src/themes'
   gmake[4]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
   gmake[4]: Leaving directory
   `/usr/ports/x11-wm/metacity/work/metacity-2.18.5/src/themes'
   gmake[4]: Entering directory
   `/usr/ports/x11-wm/metacity/work/metacity-2.18.5/src'
   gmake[4]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.
   gmake[4]: Leaving directory
   `/usr/ports/x11-wm/metacity/work/metacity-2.18.5/src'
   gmake[3]: Leaving directory
   `/usr/ports/x11-wm/metacity/work/metacity-2.18.5/src'
   gmake[2]: Leaving directory
   `/usr/ports/x11-wm/metacity/work/metacity-2.18.5/src'
   Making all in po
   gmake[2]: Entering directory
   `/usr/ports/x11-wm/metacity/work/metacity-2.18.5/po'
   file=`echo cs | sed 's,.*/,,'`.gmo \
      && rm -f $file && /usr/local/bin/msgfmt -o $file cs.po
   cs.po:1160:72: invalid multibyte sequence
   cs.po:1160: keyword "a" unknown
   cs.po:1160:76: parse error
   cs.po:1161: end-of-line within string
   /usr/local/bin/msgfmt: found 4 fatal errors
   gmake[2]: *** [cs.gmo] Error 1
   gmake[2]: Leaving directory
   `/usr/ports/x11-wm/metacity/work/metacity-2.18.5/po'
   gmake[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
   gmake[1]: Leaving directory
   `/usr/ports/x11-wm/metacity/work/metacity-2.18.5'
   gmake: *** [all] Error 2
   *** Error code 2
   Stop in /usr/ports/x11-wm/metacity.
   *** Error code 1
   Stop in /usr/ports/sysutils/gnome-control-center.
   *** Error code 1
   Stop in /usr/ports/x11/gnome-applets.
   *** Error code 1
   Stop in /usr/ports/x11/gnome2.
   *** Error code 1
   Stop in /usr/ports/x11/gnome2.


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