ports/50604: portupgrade -R of dia-0.90 fails after today's cvsup of ports tree

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at FreeBSD.org
Sun Apr 6 15:13:18 PDT 2003


On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 18:10, Stacey Roberts wrote:
> Hello Joe,
> 
> On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 22:58, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 17:57, Stacey Roberts wrote:
> > > Hello Joe,
> > > 
> > > On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 22:48, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > > > On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 17:46, Stacey Roberts wrote:
> > > > > > This isn't a big surprise.  You got rid of the sound/system file which
> > > > > > holds all of these preferences.  Now what you need to do is copy back
> > > > > > the sound/system file and restart.  If the response is still good, then
> > > > > > copy back the Gnome file.  If the response is still good, the problem
> > > > > > was a stale session manager proxy file.  If response is bad, then you've
> > > > > > isolated the file.  Delete it, and recreate those settings manually.
> > > 
> > > Well., the very first one I reverted back to original caused the delay
> > > to return.
> > > 
> > > I logged off Gnome
> > > Killed those pids
> > > I mv'd ~/.gnome/sound/system back into place
> > > Logged off the system
> > > Logged back in as "stacey"
> > > Ran "startx" - waited for about the same time (2 - 2.5 minutes) for the
> > > Gnome Login GUI to appear.
> > > Sound is back though...,
> > > 
> > > Shall I move sound/system back out of the way and try another?
> > 
> > Yes.
> 
> Okay..,I:
> Logged off Gnome
> Killed pids
> rm'd ~/.gnome/session
> mv'd ~/.gnome/sound/system out of the way
> mv'd ~/.gnome/Gnome back into place (said "Yes" to if I wanted to
> overwrite the current "Gnome" file)
> Logged off system
> Logged back on
> Ran "startx"
> 
> The login time was good (3 - 5 seconds), although there is the case
> where my normal background image appears.., then it gets covered by
> "what looks like" the default (blue) Sawfish desktop, then my background
> image comes back slowly again.
> 
> Is this what you would have expected?

Yes.  Looks like your sound settings were at fault.  Try creating a
sound/system with the following contents:

[settings]
start_esd=true
event_sounds=true
restore_gmix=false

See if that fixes things.

Joe

> 
> Regards,
> 
> Stacey
> 
> > 
> > Joe
> > 
> > > 
> > > Regards,
> > > 
> > > Stacey
> > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > Just a quick one before I begin..,
> > > > > 
> > > > > How do I create one "manually"? 
> > > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > You use gnome-control-center (the toolbox icon on the panel).  Virtually
> > > > all the settings can be configured there.
> > > > 
> > > > Joe
-- 
Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team	::	marcus at FreeBSD.org
http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome
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