2012-06-24, Monsieur Doug Barton a ecrit:
On 06/24/2012 10:57, Michael Corral wrote:
WDM was crashing in recent versions of Fedora.
So use FreeBSD, where it works just fine. :)
Last time I tried (FreeBSD 8.1) the installer crashed about
halfway through. Probably some buggy ifdefs. :)
I think this is the right approach. You couldn't possibly test all
the various UNIXes and UNIX-like OSes (e.g. Solaris, AIX, HP-UX,
IRIX, Plan 9, FreeBSD, SCO OpenServer -- and that's just the tip of
the iceberg) even if you wanted to.
are you stating that all of those platforms are currently supported?
Look through the code and you'll see some parts specifically for
AIX, HP-UX, IRIX, SunOS, and OpenBSD. There could be others but I
didn't bother to look that deeply.
If the linux bits need to be fixed, fix them. But that should be done
without ripping out code that works for other platforms.
It might be a moot point. My guess is that fixing the Linux bits
will probably break the non-Linux code without even touching it.
In the recent build I tried (commit 92039287e6 in git), by default
WDM still tries to access /dev/mem (yikes!), couldn't authenticate
via pam, and then crashed with a segfault in libuuid.so. This is
under Fedora 17 x86_64 with all the latest updates. So my guess is
that some big changes could be required to get it working again in
current versions of at least the major Linux distros, though I
hope it'll be easier than that. The other OSes might have to wait
till the dust settles, but in the meantime they could keep using
the old 1.28 version that works for them.
I really hope Alexey Froloff gets WDM working again in Linux; it
is such a natural complement to Window Maker, like GDM is to GNOME
and KDM is to KDE.
Michael
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