From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 8 14:46:13 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2A2716A41F for ; Tue, 8 Nov 2005 14:46:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from micahjon@ywave.com) Received: from smtpout1.ywave.com (ycomradius.yelmtel.com [216.227.100.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 74DE043D46 for ; Tue, 8 Nov 2005 14:46:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from micahjon@ywave.com) Received: (qmail 16150 invoked by uid 502); 8 Nov 2005 14:46:12 -0000 Received: from dsl28217.ywave.com (HELO ?192.168.1.65?) (micahjon@ywave.com@216.227.115.217) by 0 with SMTP; 8 Nov 2005 14:46:12 -0000 X-CLIENT-IP: 216.227.115.217 X-CLIENT-HOST: dsl28217.ywave.com Message-ID: <4370BA33.6080400@ywave.com> Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2005 06:46:11 -0800 From: Micah User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051106) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bob Perry References: <4370468B.9060407@gti.net> In-Reply-To: <4370468B.9060407@gti.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Major Error Upgrading to GNOME 2.12 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2005 14:46:13 -0000 Bob Perry wrote: > This past weekend, I CVSup'd the ports tree and prepared to run > portupgrade. I noticed a large number of GNOME ports in my output from > pkg_version and, found that I would need to run the GNOME Project 's > upgrade script to upgrade to 2.12. > > I use a dial-up modem had been timed out on several occasions.during the > process This happened about three times during the night and I had to > restart the upgrade each time. Note that I failed to use the restart > flag recommended during the first restart. I finally ended up with a > "succesful upgrade..." message even though I now have only 188 ports > after beginning with 297. Amongst the missing is gnome 2.12 itself. > > I'm hoping there is some way to get things back to normal and rerun the > upgrade without re-installing the missing ports. BTW, I did back up > /var/db/pkg. > > Any advice would be appreciated. I run 5.4 -RELEASE #0. I'm running > this message from a second machine but should be able to supply the logs > if needed. > > Thanks, > Bob Perry > gnome_upgrade_lst.xxxx in your tmp folder should contain a list of all the software that the script was going to update. Compare that list with the output from pkg_version/portversion to see what needs reinstalling. Reinstall it via whatever method you like (portinstall, cd /user/port/xxx/xxx && make install). I am in a similar situation but I had the output from portversion from before the upgrade to rely on (and wrote a script that made a list of the differences). HTH, Micah