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Date:      Tue, 5 Sep 2017 13:16:08 -0500
From:      Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com>
To:        DTD <doug@safeport.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: How to repair a package
Message-ID:  <CA%2BtpaK25Qek=%2B3he=1Ou0vZNsGxbNTCG=p9qsjJ%2BTAYPZ4DF7Q@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1709051339230.17076@bucksport.safeport.com>
References:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1709051339230.17076@bucksport.safeport.com>

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On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 12:48 PM, DTD <doug@safeport.com> wrote:

> Between shutdown and reboot starting xdm gets:
>    Shared object "libXmu.so.6" not found, required by "xdm"
> and starting startxfce4:
>    Shared object "libX11.so.6" not found, required by "xinit"
>
> libX11.so.6 is a module in libXScrnSaver. So after seeing if I could find
> libX11.so.6 on another system and not finding an option in "pkg delete"
> that would delete only libXScrnSaver and not the 40 other related packages
> I tried "pkg fetch" and "pkg install -f" on the txz file. That gets a
> Segmentation fault.
>
> Do I have any options other than starting over?
>

Are you mixing ports and packages?  It's best to avoid that if you aren't
familiar with the complexities.

Try a pkg update -y

-- 
Adam



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