Other Installed CDE, but cannot create action

KaptorX

KaptorX

Hi All,

I'm new here so a short introduction, I've recently started used FreeBSD. I use(d) Debian as my main desktop for several years, but I'm far from an expert. I just know howto exit vi(m) ;)

Anyway, I'm trying to install CDE by following this thread. I've reached the Adding programs to the panel section, but when I click the "create action" button the activity light (I guess) in the panel flashes for a few seconds and the cursor changes into an hourglass but nothing happens. Most other desktop apps seem to work correctly, only Calculator has the same problem and the date and time work in the panel but when I open the calendar app there is an error message
rpc.cmsd is not responding for your user name.

From what I understand I need to add two lines to
/etc/inetd.conf
which I did and checked for typos but still the same error. I even tried changing root in those two lines into my username.

I have tried the CDE and CDE-Devel available in pkg and the CDE-Devel version from ports. Is there a preferred version? I would guess the pkg version?

Thanks
 
KaptorX said:
Hi All,

I'm new here so a short introduction, I've recently started used FreeBSD. I use(d) Debian as my main desktop for several years, but I'm far from an expert. I just know howto exit vi(m) ;)

Anyway, I'm trying to install CDE by following this thread. I've reached the Adding programs to the panel section, but when I click the "create action" button the activity light (I guess) in the panel flashes for a few seconds and the cursor changes into an hourglass but nothing happens. Most other desktop apps seem to work correctly, only Calculator has the same problem and the date and time work in the panel but when I open the calendar app there is an error message
rpc.cmsd is not responding for your user name.

From what I understand I need to add two lines to
/etc/inetd.conf
which I did and checked for typos but still the same error. I even tried changing root in those two lines into my username.

I have tried the CDE and CDE-Devel available in pkg and the CDE-Devel version from ports. Is there a preferred version? I would guess the pkg version?

Thanks
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Perhaps if you're not familiar with the vi(m) command line and FreeBSD, CDE isn't the first choice.
Have you installed another X environment, and are all your operator privileges correct?
 
I am fairly familiar with the command line and vi(m), the knowing howto exit vi(m) was just a little joke since there are a lot of memes about not knowing howto exit it.
My point was that I'm not a seasoned server administrator or anything, just someone who has used Linux as his desktop in a non-professional capacity.

To answer your questions, Yes I've installed and used XFCE4 and MATE. I also tried Gnome but that didn't work well and from what I've found Gnome is not fully supported.
I'm actually using FreeBSD and MATE on my main Laptop, I'm experimenting with CDE on an older model with broken WiFi.

As for the privileges I am uncertain, I followed a youtube video from RoboNuggie so I'm a member of the wheel, operator and video groups.
 
Well I've found the solution to one problem, the calendar. I added inetd_enable="YES" to /etc/rc.conf but I didn't realize I also had to start it after this.
quick fix (not sure if it's the correct one) was to have it started when CDE starts.
 
After reading the cde error log, I thought I'd found the problem. Missing fonts. But after several days of troubleshooting it turned out the the fonts error was completely irrelevant and the actual problem was not printed in the log file at all.

After starting the none working programs from the command line, it turned out that these programs generate a SEGFAULT

Is anybody using CDE on 14.3-RELEASE or 15.0-RELEASE that also experience this problem? I've tried on clean installations of both versions and on 15.0-RELEASE the version installed with PKG or through ports

If needed I can post the complete error message here later (I don't have access to my computer a at the moment)
 
I just checked on my machine that is running 15.0-RELEASE upgraded from 14.3-RELEASE, so not a clean install and now dtcalc just does nothing and dtcreate gives bus error (core dumped)

I've added the dump as attachment, and will see if a fresh install of 15.0-RELEASE will give the SEGFAULT error
 

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Please don't click on dtcalc. If you kill process for that, it will full your file system . Avoid also dtcalender
 
Thanks for the heads-up!

I checked for dtcalender but the only application that starts with dtcac is dtcalc

Do you know anything about the other apps? For example dtfile works fine but dtcreate crashes with the same bus error as dtcalc did, and it would be useful to replace dtcalc in the menu with one that actually works ;-)
 
I've found one of the things that does give a SEGFAULT

When I want to add an application to the panel (let's say replace the mail program with thunderbird) when I reach the Install Icon option the filemanager instantly crashes. This happens when I use the Application Manger form the GUI or with dtfile

The error that dtfile gives is:
PR PipeRead: broken pipe, ppid=50898 pid=51770 fd=11
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

and the dump is attached
 

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