I don't know if this is the correct section of the forum to ask questions on the use of RetroShare on FreeBSD, so if this is not the correct place for this, perhaps one of the moderators can move it to the correct place, or tell me where to put it.
Anyway, on my new installation of FreeBSD (via FuryBSD) I am quite pleased with the way everything is working...with the exception of an installation of RetroShare viaWinDOZE Windows versions of RS running correctly on two other boxes. I am configuring my FreeBSD version in as close to a copy of my working versions as possible, but some things have popped up:
1) RS completely "goes away" after a certain period of inactivity with it, and I have to completely restart it and log back into it. No other "app" I have on the machine does this.
2) There is a strange error message that constantly shows in the Preferences tab, which says "!!The RetroShare's desktop file is missing or wrong!!", and that message stays there no matter what I do, yet the desktop LOOKS correct and appears to be there.
3) When joining a "Chat" group, messages I type into the chat window are not passed to anyone whom I have connected to.
4) Some connections/friends whom I exchange info with one day, are gone the next,
5) Both DHT and NAT change to green shortly after I fire RS up and stay that way as long as I have RS open and am doing something with it. I would think that this would indicate that my network settings are correct and working.
Anyone have any ideas on this?
Ken Gordon
Anyway, on my new installation of FreeBSD (via FuryBSD) I am quite pleased with the way everything is working...with the exception of an installation of RetroShare via
pkg install retroshare
. FYI, I have 1) RS completely "goes away" after a certain period of inactivity with it, and I have to completely restart it and log back into it. No other "app" I have on the machine does this.
2) There is a strange error message that constantly shows in the Preferences tab, which says "!!The RetroShare's desktop file is missing or wrong!!", and that message stays there no matter what I do, yet the desktop LOOKS correct and appears to be there.
3) When joining a "Chat" group, messages I type into the chat window are not passed to anyone whom I have connected to.
4) Some connections/friends whom I exchange info with one day, are gone the next,
5) Both DHT and NAT change to green shortly after I fire RS up and stay that way as long as I have RS open and am doing something with it. I would think that this would indicate that my network settings are correct and working.
Anyone have any ideas on this?
Ken Gordon
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