The Site With the Lamp

September 3, 2004

Yesterday's story was about a Jmeter installation that dragged over many moons. Here is another. I began an installation of gnome 2.6.1 from source a quite some time ago.

Don't for a moment think I spent six weeks doing nothing but compile gnome, instead I would multitask running the configure, make , make install in the background while doing other work in a foreground process. Naturally thread priority was for the foreground task, some days the background task never had even as much as a clock tick

Anyway in the end finally reached the stage where gnome would (reluctantly) start up but as the screen shots will reveal it's a very reluctant installation indeed.

Yikes does that mean I have to upgrade Xwindow as well. Yikes!.

The Red Face main menu shows up after it was added manually, till then the main panel was blank. Even the icons seem to be missing.