Re: Editors are broken after update

2013-01-21 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 09:51:13 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 03:53:56 +0100, Polytropon wrote: > > /usr/home/rocketmouse, _not_ user/home/rocketmouse > > It wasn't possible to copy the message, so I've written it. It's very > likely that I made a typo. I'm a dyslexic and since

Re: Editors are broken after update

2013-01-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 03:53:56 +0100, Polytropon wrote: /usr/home/rocketmouse, _not_ user/home/rocketmouse It wasn't possible to copy the message, so I've written it. It's very likely that I made a typo. I'm a dyslexic and since there's no big difference between /usr and /user and it both is

Re: Editors are broken after update

2013-01-20 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 14:20:10 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Since I only run "mcedit" without a file, the error message is grotesque > and btw. Exactly - it is, and probably misleading as it implies that mcedit is trying to access something that doesn't even exist, even with a maximum of imaginati

Re: Editors are broken after update

2013-01-20 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 16:49:12 +0100, Herbert J. Skuhra wrote: On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 09:46:00 +0100 "Ralf Mardorf" wrote: Wow, if on Linux something is fishy, it usually has to do with Lennart Poettering, does he break FreeBSD too? $ su - Password: root@freebsd:/root # mcedit Error "/root" is

Re: Editors are broken after update

2013-01-20 Thread Herbert J. Skuhra
On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 09:46:00 +0100 "Ralf Mardorf" wrote: > Wow, if on Linux something is fishy, it usually has to do with Lennart > Poettering, does he break FreeBSD too? > > $ su - > Password: > root@freebsd:/root # mcedit > > Error > "/root" is not a regular file [ Dismiss ] https://www.midn

Re: Editors are broken after update

2013-01-20 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Since I only run "mcedit" without a file, the error message is grotesque and btw. $ ls -l /usr/home total 2 drwxr-xr-x 26 rocketmouse rocketmouse 1536 Jan 20 13:07 rocketmouse $ ls -l /home lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 8 Dec 18 19:19 /home -> usr/home Thank you for the hints. I take the issue

Re: Editors are broken after update

2013-01-20 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 11:21:17 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 10:38:45 +0100, Polytropon wrote: > > # cd /root > > # mv .mc .mc.orig > > # mcedit > > $ mv .mc .mc.pre.update-01-Jan-2013 > $ su root -c "mv /root/.mc /root/.mc.pre.update-01-Jan-2013" > $ mcedit > > Error > "user/ho

Re: Editors are broken after update

2013-01-20 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 10:38:45 +0100, Polytropon wrote: # cd /root # mv .mc .mc.orig # mcedit $ mv .mc .mc.pre.update-01-Jan-2013 $ su root -c "mv /root/.mc /root/.mc.pre.update-01-Jan-2013" $ mcedit Error "user/home/rocketmouse" is not a regular file [ Dismiss ] That should start the editor

Re: Editors are broken after update

2013-01-20 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 09:46:00 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Wow, if on Linux something is fishy, it usually has to do with Lennart > Poettering, does he break FreeBSD too? > > $ su - > Password: > root@freebsd:/root # mcedit > > Error > "/root" is not a regular file [ Dismiss ] Seems to be a pro

Editors are broken after update

2013-01-20 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Wow, if on Linux something is fishy, it usually has to do with Lennart Poettering, does he break FreeBSD too? $ su - Password: root@freebsd:/root # mcedit Error "/root" is not a regular file [ Dismiss ] root@freebsd:/root # gedit (gedit:17410): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: root@free