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
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From: Predrag Punosevac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Problem with Gnome2 Installation
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 23:43:42 -0700
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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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