still having Zombie problems
Jack Coates
jack at monkeynoodle.org
Sun Sep 1 18:40:05 CEST 2002
./configure && make rpm
bombs out in the RPM stage with this:
config.status: creating xfdiff/icons/Makefile
config.status: error: cannot find input file: xfdiff/icons/Makefile.in
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.21172 (%build)
Clearly this system has reached Cruft Force 5... I think at this point
my big questions are to reinstall with MDK 8.2, 9.0rc3, RH7.3, or Gentoo
1.2.
Jack
On Sun, 2002-09-01 at 09:24, Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> A simple "./configure && make rpm" from the source tree and then
> installing the generated rpm would have done the job.
>
> Cheers,
> Olivier.
>
> On Sun, 2002-09-01 at 17:10, Jack Coates wrote:
> > downloaded xfce-stable and compiled it without incident, only to
> > discover that Mandrake's mess of sessions, display managers, and
> > configuration files that source other configuration files make it quite
> > difficult to manually add another session. xfce would start up fine from
> > within ICEwm or KDE, but not from GDM. Of course, it has only ever
> > exhibited the zombie behavior when launched from a session. So I edited
> > xfce.spec (--disable-taskbar && --enable-xft as usual) and moved files
> > around to make an RPM.
> >
> > This didn't fix the session problem as choosing XFce now just makes X
> > crash.
> >
> > I should also note that when XFce is run from within another WM the
> > freaking taskbar is still there.
> >
> > Short of nuking it from orbit and starting over, I'm at a loss.
> >
> > Jack
> >
> > On Sun, 2002-09-01 at 04:52, Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> > > Jack,
> > >
> > > xfce-devel is a mess, among which you can find the xfce4 developpment.
> > > xfce 3.8.18 can be found in xfce-stable
> > >
> > > Don't be confused with the ChangeLog, it's updated manually when I think
> > > of it.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Olivier.
> > >
> > > On Sun, 2002-09-01 at 06:26, Jack Coates wrote:
> > > > So I downloaded xfce-devel from CVS and ran autogen.sh and configure...
> > > > but it bombs looking for glib2 which tells me this is xfce4. The
> > > > changelog of xfce-stable stops at 3.8.16, so 3.8.18 must be in
> > > > xfce-devel, right? Is there some configure switch telling it to make 3
> > > > instead of 4?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Sat, 2002-08-31 at 21:06, Jack Coates wrote:
> > > > > Also just noticed that --disable-taskbar didn't have any effect. It's
> > > > > still there :-(
> > > > >
> > > > > Off to try the CVS...
> > > > >
> > > > > On Sat, 2002-08-31 at 16:12, Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> > > > > > And maybe try the very latest CVS (approx. 30 secs old.)
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On Sun, 2002-09-01 at 00:57, Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> > > > > > > Jack,
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Here's the weird thing: I tried to get a backtrace with gdb, and a new
> > > > > > > > xfce launched from within gdb from within xterm doesn't have the problem
> > > > > > > > -- only the one that was launched from xfwm does it.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > starce might be helpful here. Add a new entry to the menu looking like
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > xterm -e strace xterm
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > So you might see what's happening.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Cheers,
> > > > > > > --
> > > > > > > Olivier <fourdan at xfce.org> http://www.xfce.org
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> > > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > XFce is a lightweight desktop environment for various *NIX systems.
> > > Designed for productivity, it loads and executes applications fast,
> > > while conserving system resources. XFce is all free software, released
> > > under GNU General Public License. Available from http://www.xfce.org
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> Designed for productivity, it loads and executes applications fast,
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