Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 03:50:48 +0530 From: manish jain <invalid.pointer@gmail.com> To: rasz <raszobbi@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Blundered with gnome-desktop Message-ID: <49CD5140.2010200@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <49CD389E.8020004@gmail.com> References: <20090327120013.DBDA010656FC@hub.freebsd.org> <49CD13A3.1030806@gmail.com> <49CD389E.8020004@gmail.com>
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rasz wrote: > manish jain wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> I blundered - I downloaded the latest ports tarball and did a 'make >> install' in deskutils/conduit. The conduit port asked for a deinstall >> followed by a reinstall in gnome-desktop, which I promptly complied >> with. As was bound to happen, everything in gnome is now >> broken/paralysed. Being a gnomer, I do not want to abandon my gnome >> environment. Just to make sure before attempting recovery, will the >> following 2 steps generally be able to fix things for me : >> >> #1) >> pkgdb -aF >> >> #2) >> portupgrade -L /var/gnome2-upgrade-logs/portupgrade-%s::%s.log -l \ >> /root/gnome2-portupgrade-results.txt -vrR -x gnome-desktop gnome-desktop >> > just in case, do you know if your gnome before this was updated to > lastest version (2.24.x) ? cuz the above could get messy if you had > previous version and only updated gnome-desktop. (there is something in > ports/UPDATING) > No, my gnome was not 2.24. It was 2.22, like almost everything else. -- Thank you and Regards Manish Jain invalid.pointer@gmail.com +91-99830-62246 NB : Laast year I kudn't spell Software Engineer. Now I are won.
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