Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 01:27:41 +0100 From: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> To: Antonio Olivares <olivares14031@gmail.com> Cc: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libpng.so.5" not found, required by "gnome-session" Message-ID: <20100416002741.GF91992@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <m2u75107331004151711j86ba2c22t6402f1391c63e430@mail.gmail.com> References: <u2l75107331004151649k79dee2b7w2567098010dc177f@mail.gmail.com> <20100415235831.GE91992@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <m2u75107331004151711j86ba2c22t6402f1391c63e430@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 07:11:24PM -0500, Antonio Olivares wrote: > I have rebuilt everything from scratch ran it for several days. Have > tried it back and forth still get the same thing. I guess I should > keep trying for a while Till I give up and maybe install 7.3? I don't think your problem has anything to do with the base OS. I think this is only related to the ports tree. > I did not read /usr/ports/UPDATING entry from that day, or maybe it > was there but too many things worked apparently except KDE and/or > GNOME :( well, the png upgrade was painful for all. But all you need is to rebuild all png-dependent ports. In your example of gnome-session you can try to find which port installed it and rebuild that port. Something like # which gnome-session or # find /usr -name "gnome-session" should give you the full path to the executable. Then you can try # pkg_info -W <full path to the executable> this should give you the port name. Try to rebuild it. If all goes well you are likely to be stopped at another png-dependent port needing rebuilding. So you just repeat this process for all such ports. But as I said, if you have lots of png dependent ports it might be easier to delete all ports and install them from scratch. I don't use gnome or kde myself, so can't advise here. anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423
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