Solved Linux Sublime Text 3 package on FreeBSD 10.3

[Stephane Legrand]

Hello,

After having updated (with freebsd-update) my FreeBSD 10.2 workstation to the new 10.3, i am no longer able to run Sublime Text 3. I have updated the system and the packages without any problem. But when i try to start Sublime Text 3, i get... nothing. No window, no error message at all.

I also tried to install the Sublime Text 3 package on Virtualbox with the official virtual image of FreeBSD 10.3. The package installation is ok. But, same problem, when i try to run "sublime" on a shell, i get nothing.

So my question is: does anyone has actually succeed to run Sublime Text 3 package on FreeBSD 10.3?

Thanks.
Stéphane.

 

[Stephane Legrand]

The port maintainer has kindly answered to my PR 208618:

Hi, try sublime -w as it sometimes shows a bit more info when sublime fails to start, however I would say this is related to the tmpfs changes and you should get a message warning about that when installing linux-c6 ...sublime needs shm but now shm also needs to be a tmpfs filesystem. In my local machine I link dev/shm to /ram and /ram in a tmpfs filesystem but you can off do that for /tmp. sadly sublime binary can't tell you that's why it fails, however -w wi at list say it couldn't init shm. Hopefully that's the issue your seeing, and it's easily solved

So, it was my mistake. Text is now sublime again

 

[T313C0mun1s7]

I am having the exact same issue. When I run sublime -w I get unable to init shm.

Sadly I have no clue what the solution in the bug report is. It needs to be clarified and it is closed. I have not used BSD since FreeBSD was at 4.4 and I don't know what miguelmclara was trying to say. I know what a link is, and I was able to find /dev/shm, but there is no /ram and I am totally lost by "and /ram in a tmpfs filesystem but you can off do that for /tmp"

Could you please post a clear instruction on what I should do to fix the issue? Please note that by clear instructions, I mean it took me about 6 hours to figure out how to install Sublime Text 3 from the ports collection. I am using PC-BSD and installed ports from AppCafe but nothing seemed to happen and nothing was in /usr/ports. I finally figured out to use portsnap, but I would not consider the section 4.5 instructions very clear either. Seriously, if you mean I should type

sudo /usr/sbin/portsnap

then why do you just put

portsnap

? Are new, and inexperienced users just suppose to inherently know it is in /usr/sbin? Also, if it needs to run as root, could you not say that? Long story short - when I say clear instructions I mean the FreeBSD documentation is not a good example. If I have to type

sudo /usr/sbin/<whatever>

and you tell me to run

<whatever>

without the full command, I will be beating my head on my desk for a while.

Since you are not alone in this issue, why don't we just leave an easy and complete solution to this problem right there in this thread for the other people in the future that will have the issue. It is already showing up as the first hit in a Google search.

 

[Stephane Legrand]

Ok, i will try to give more explanations.

1. You need to be root. So open a terminal and type:
sudo sh

It will give you a shell with root rights. Then you won't have to type sudo each time for the next commands.

2. Create a directory for the tmpfs filesystem. For instance:
mkdir /tmpfs

3. Edit the /etc/fstab (with vi for instance) to add the following line at the end of the file:

tmpfs     /tmpfs     tmpfs   rw,mode=777   0   0

4. Mount the tmpfs filesystem:

mount /tmpfs

5. Edit the file /etc/devfs.conf (with vi for instance) to add the following line at the end of the file:

link   /tmpfs   shm

6. Restart devfs

/etc/rc.d/devfs restart

7. Try to run sublime -w, that should work.

Regards,
Stéphane.

 

[SirDice]

1. You need to be root. So open a terminal and type:
sudo sh

Use sudo -i instead.

3. Edit the /etc/fstab (with vi for instance) to add the following line at the end of the file:

tmpfs     /tmpfs     tmpfs   rw,mode=777   0   0

Permissions should be 1777, not 777. The sticky(7) bit needs to be set too. And you can mount tmpfs(5) on /tmp. No need for a separate filesystem.

 

[frostygoth]

Ok, i will try to give more explanations.

1. You need to be root. So open a terminal and type:
sudo sh

It will give you a shell with root rights. Then you won't have to type sudo each time for the next commands.

2. Create a directory for the tmpfs filesystem. For instance:
mkdir /tmpfs

3. Edit the /etc/fstab (with vi for instance) to add the following line at the end of the file:

tmpfs     /tmpfs     tmpfs   rw,mode=777   0   0

4. Mount the tmpfs filesystem:

mount /tmpfs

5. Edit the file /etc/devfs.conf (with vi for instance) to add the following line at the end of the file:

link   /tmpfs   shm

6. Restart devfs

/etc/rc.d/devfs restart

7. Try to run sublime -w, that should work.

Regards,
Stéphane.

Old post, but still relevant for 2023!

This specific post is referenced on their github in issue 5376 at sublimehq/sublime_text/issues/5376

Thanks all!

 

[tOsYZYny]

Does Sublime 4 need any special configuration to work out of the box? I can use sublime 3 just fine, but sublime 4 doesn't open any windows yet the exit code is 0.