Problem with Gnome2 Installation
Predrag Punosevac
punosevac at math.arizona.edu
Wed Aug 29 12:10:13 PDT 2007
I am happy it worked out. My guess is that you still didn't alter
properly files as rc.conf, devfs.conf and fstab and that is way your Gnome
is not fully working. My Gnome is 100% working.
I use portsnap fatch && portsnap extract && portsnap updated to refresh
the port three.
I have used in the past portupgrade to upgrade some packages (never use
with option -a (all) and always read UPDATE before you try to upgrade
something. Recently I upgraded one library by using make deinstall &&
make reinstall (I guess this is little bit stupid because of the
dependence issues but it could work for some small program)
I have never used portmaster.
lawrence.petrykanyn at sympatico.ca wrote:
>
> Hi, Predrag!
>
> Thank you for responding to my question. I installed 6.2 Release, but
> did a minimum installation so I did not install Xorg from the release
> (I think). I then installed Xorg-7.2 from the ports collection. I
> took your advice and used the "make BATCH=yes install clean" command
> the installation was successful. Thanks again. I now can't seem to
> get Gnome to run even though I followed the instructions in the
> handbook, but I'll post that question in the Gnome forum as you suggested.
>
> BTW - Do you use portupgrade, portmaster or portsnap? Any comments on
> which to use? Is it okay to use more than one or does that corrupt
> the integrity of the ports tree?
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Larry
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> From: /Predrag Punosevac <punosevac at math.arizona.edu>/
> To: /<lawrence.petrykanyn at sympatico.ca>, questions at freebsd.org/
> Subject: /Re: Problem with Gnome2 Installation/
> Date: /Mon, 27 Aug 2007 23:43:42 -0700/
> >lawrence.petrykanyn at sympatico.ca wrote:
> >>
> >> 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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> >Ok. Could you tell me if you installed 6.2 release (this is the
> >official one ) or 6.2 stable(you have to get this as a snap shot or
> >rebuild the world)? Second question is if you installed 6.2 release
> >then you probably have
> >XOrg 6.9 not XOrg 7.2. Just to be on the safe side check /var/db/pkg
> >?
> >I would guess that the failure has to do with the dependency issues
> >related to XOrg 7.2.
> >Gnome 2.18 was not part of official 6.2 release and probably depends
> >on XOrg 7.2. I build 2.18 successfully from ports but I am running
> >6.2 stable and XOrg 7.2. I also used make BATCH=yes install clean (I
> >used batch mode to avoid answering questions about the packages
> >and creating dependency issues)
> >It took over 12 hours on Instel Core 2 Duo to compile whole meta
> >port and another 5 hours for fifth-toe and gnome-office.
> >My knowledge is very limited so I could not tell you anything more
> >about failure of your compiler or answer the rest of your
> >questionts.
> >
> >According to FreeBSD Gnome http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/ the failure
> >of compiler is not uncommon. Maybe you should post
> >your question on there mailing list.
> >
> >All the best
> >Predrag
>
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