[kde-freebsd] Re: kdm4 on FreeBSD 8.1 fails to launch

[Freddie Cash]

2011/3/27 Dima Panov <fluffy at fluffy.khv.ru>:
> 28.03.2011, 16:20, "Freddie Cash" <fjwcash at gmail.com>:
>> There's a problem in the RC script for kdm4, as part of KDE SC 4.6.1.
>> At least on FreeBSD 8.1.
>>
>> The following line fails as pgrep on 8.1 doesn't support -q:
>>
>>     while ! pgrep -fq "^/usr/libexec/getty " > /dev/null 2>&1; do
>>
>> Removing the q from the line makes everything work correctly on 8.1.
>>
>> Took me awhile to figure out why "sudo service kdm4 start" just filled
>> the process list with entries, without ever launching the binary.  :)
>
> Please update your portstree. It was fixed yesterday.

Hrm, guess I updated my tree right before the fix went in.  :)

Good to know it's fixed.  Thanks.


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