2002-Aug-09

My brother called and told me that a Linux box as some blue screen and fatal error and it is safe to reboot. At first I thought he was reading some kernel panic. But then he pressed some key and he said a screensaver popped up. It was just a xscreensaver that looked like a Windows error. Funny :)

Noticed a lot of stagnant POP3 connections -- some a month old. All from same user; I wonder why not lock file problems? I killed them. I'll look at this later.

Anyways, when I ran sodipodi from NetBSD ftp site I received:

Shared object "libfreetype.so.8" not found

I send-pr'd this: pkg/17898. Wiz closed the PR and removed the package, because it was built against XFree86-4.x.x which comes with own copy of freetype2.

When running kontour on remote Linux box to the X server on local NetBSD workstation, it said:

Xlib:  extension "RENDER" missing on display "kids:10.0".

"kids" is the Linux box. I guess "10:0" is the ssh-wrapped display; so the RENDER is really missing from my local XFree86 3.x system. I need to update to XFree86 4.x.x! (But kontour seems to run correctly.)