From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 11 14:19:54 2003 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 E65FD37B401 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 14:19:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.karamazov.org (h162-040-089-010.adsl.navix.net [162.40.89.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68C1343FA3 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 14:19:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from smoberly@karamazov.org) Received: from karamazov.org (mail.karamazov.org [10.0.0.11]) by mail.karamazov.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with SMTP id h1BMJfVV068419; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 16:19:41 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from smoberly@karamazov.org) Received: from 65.221.169.187 (SquirrelMail authenticated user smoberly) by mail.karamazov.org with HTTP; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 16:19:41 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <19389.65.221.169.187.1045001981.squirrel@mail.karamazov.org> Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 16:19:41 -0600 (CST) Subject: Re: Gnome 2 on FreeBSD 4.7p3 -- multiple issues From: "Scott A. Moberly" To: In-Reply-To: <1045001783.305.74.camel@gyros> References: <1045001783.305.74.camel@gyros> X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal Cc: , X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.2.9) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 17:10, Mark Edwards wrote: >> On Tuesday, February 11, 2003, at 01:57 PM, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: >> >> > >> > You may have accidentally overwritten X. However, it could also be >> that this file is very ancient, and doesn't properly reflect what's >> going on now. If you've found you've messed up X, you should remove >> all XFree86 packages, then reinstall the XFree86-4 meta-port. >> > >> > Joe >> >> I'm beginning to suspect my XFree86 install is toast. My man pages >> say 3.3.6. I think I had 3.3.6 installed from the original FreeBSD >> 4.3 or something like that, and somehow didn't fully remove it. When >> I do >> >> cd /usr/ports/x11/XFree86 >> sudo make deinstall >> >> it says the port isn't installed. However, I don't have XFree86-4 >> installed either, and my XFree86 man pages say 3.3.6, so clearly 3.3.6 >> didn't get deinstalled and is still half-working. >> >> Is there a way to say, "deinstall the files that would be installed if >> this port was installed?" > > Not that I know of. Perhaps portupgrade and friends have this > capability. > >> Or, would it be best to install >> /usr/ports/x11/XFree86, and then deinstall it? > > This would do it, but you might be able to get away with just installing > XFree86-4 over top your existing X disaster. > > Joe > >> >> I'm pretty sure if I can get 3.3.6 totally gone, and then install >> /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4, I'm going to be set. Sorry to be bringing >> such a fubar'd system to you! >> >> -- >> Mark Edwards >> Engineer >> Mr. Toad's >> San Francisco, CA > -- > PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc My two cents in here real quick, what does: pkg_info | fgrep XFree86 give? -- Scott A. Moberly smoberly@karamazov.org One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. -- Will Durant To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message