another galeon2 spinner problem

Mezz bsdforums.org reigncracks at hotmail.com
Tue Apr 1 20:55:58 PST 2003


>On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 08:15:32PM -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 18:52, Glenn Johnson wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 03:06:38PM -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 14:47, Glenn Johnson wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > I just set up a system at work that had a fresh hard drive.  I
> > > > > installed FreeBSD-5.0 RELEASE and then immediately updated to
> > > > > -current.  It is current as of today.  I installed Gnome2 fresh.
> > > > > This was done about 2 weeks ago.  I have kept the ports up to
> > > > > date via cvsup/portupgrade.  The galeon2 program does not show
> > > > > the spinner; it never has on this system.
> > > > >
> > > > > I had this problem on my home system.  In that case the spinner
> > > > > disappeared after an update of bonobo.  Subsequent updates fixed
> > > > > this and my system at home has the spinner in galeon2.  The
> > > > > system at home was not a fresh install of Gnome-2.2 as it had
> > > > > gone through Gnome-2.1 first, via marcuscom.  What might be
> > > > > missing on this freshly installed system?
> > > >
> > > > The galeon2-1.3.3 update from
> > > > http://www.marcuscom.com/downloads/freeze/.  Note, you'll also
> > > > need the mozilla diffs.
> > >
> > > Thanks.  I am curious though, why do I have the spinner on my home
> > > system but not on this fresh install?  Other than the fact that my
> > > home system is older, the two machines have the same ports tree
> > > and the same versions of all software.  Could it perhaps be an old
> > > library on my home system that portupgrade left behind?
> >
> > The problem was introduced with the latest libbonoboui.  If you have
> > 2.2.0 the spinner will show up just fine.
>
>I have libbonoboui-2.2.0.1 on both the system at work and the system at
>home. Home system has spinner, work (freshly installed) does not.

Trust Joe.. :-) The freeze diff do fix other people (include me) the spinner 
problem. If you don't want to use those diff files, you can wait for very 
few days when 4.8 is releasing and Joe will commit those diff files into the 
ports tree.

Cheers,
Mezz

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