Re: Editors are broken after update

2013-01-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 03:53:56 +0100, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: /usr/home/rocketmouse, _not_ user/home/rocketmouse It wasn't possible to copy the message, so I've written it. It's very likely that I made a typo. I'm a dyslexic and since there's no big difference between /usr and

Re: Editors are broken after update

2013-01-21 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 09:51:13 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 03:53:56 +0100, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: /usr/home/rocketmouse, _not_ user/home/rocketmouse It wasn't possible to copy the message, so I've written it. It's very likely that I made a typo. I'm a dyslexic

Editors are broken after update

2013-01-20 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Wow, if on Linux something is fishy, it usually has to do with Lennart Poettering, does he break FreeBSD too? $ su - Password: root@freebsd:/root # mcedit Error /root is not a regular file [ Dismiss ] root@freebsd:/root # gedit (gedit:17410): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

Re: Editors are broken after update

2013-01-20 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 09:46:00 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Wow, if on Linux something is fishy, it usually has to do with Lennart Poettering, does he break FreeBSD too? $ su - Password: root@freebsd:/root # mcedit Error /root is not a regular file [ Dismiss ] Seems to be a problem with

Re: Editors are broken after update

2013-01-20 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 10:38:45 +0100, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: # cd /root # mv .mc .mc.orig # mcedit $ mv .mc .mc.pre.update-01-Jan-2013 $ su root -c mv /root/.mc /root/.mc.pre.update-01-Jan-2013 $ mcedit Error user/home/rocketmouse is not a regular file [ Dismiss ] That should

Re: Editors are broken after update

2013-01-20 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 11:21:17 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 10:38:45 +0100, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: # cd /root # mv .mc .mc.orig # mcedit $ mv .mc .mc.pre.update-01-Jan-2013 $ su root -c mv /root/.mc /root/.mc.pre.update-01-Jan-2013 $ mcedit Error

Re: Editors are broken after update

2013-01-20 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Since I only run mcedit without a file, the error message is grotesque and btw. $ ls -l /usr/home total 2 drwxr-xr-x 26 rocketmouse rocketmouse 1536 Jan 20 13:07 rocketmouse $ ls -l /home lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 8 Dec 18 19:19 /home - usr/home Thank you for the hints. I take the issues

Re: Editors are broken after update

2013-01-20 Thread Herbert J. Skuhra
On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 09:46:00 +0100 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@rocketmail.com wrote: Wow, if on Linux something is fishy, it usually has to do with Lennart Poettering, does he break FreeBSD too? $ su - Password: root@freebsd:/root # mcedit Error /root is not a regular file [ Dismiss ]

Re: Editors are broken after update

2013-01-20 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 14:20:10 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Since I only run mcedit without a file, the error message is grotesque and btw. Exactly - it is, and probably misleading as it implies that mcedit is trying to access something that doesn't even exist, even with a maximum of imagination.