From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 27 22:19:21 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EB751065742 for ; Fri, 27 Mar 2009 22:19:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from invalid.pointer@gmail.com) Received: from ti-out-0910.google.com (ti-out-0910.google.com [209.85.142.191]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C9E08FC08 for ; Fri, 27 Mar 2009 22:19:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from invalid.pointer@gmail.com) Received: by ti-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id u5so883614tia.3 for ; Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:19:18 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=eeEwIXfCv9dMXgQpDhMEmh0TElby8JxAL3o1zBtl6Ws=; b=GnMRfRM2wQiuF1Sm5elbxkEc58svkdxO1vzOonArBoto3NzJwTRFFWXk+fzkqr6A9D Vl/LEfY+B7WeSgNhKHGyPcP30elNTPZwvI3TjV1Zi/Q/xNVYRV8N8MmyS/CSpgOkkgrg blybkJrAiBAzY3laq5H9NrIVsPY/k/OrCXDVY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=WolBNmh5HZCkTbeaJmIKewCgDm//TvieHR7SzPVEqsdWhOOe3d2Z4AJkqN2LKrNAZP T9l/D7xakPaZgZoKugDbfyT3rE2pbUXk/ovHbgBlV/SsL0zUqOnVhAgLK243wVIFUHXz vEBIyZTazn4o4zXyk7XIRW6eK61bobTN6wdz8= Received: by 10.110.49.6 with SMTP id w6mr1312767tiw.19.1238192358867; Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:19:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.3? ([117.196.224.98]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id w12sm2035189tib.0.2009.03.27.15.19.13 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:19:17 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <49CD5140.2010200@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 03:50:48 +0530 From: manish jain User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Windows/20081209) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: rasz , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20090327120013.DBDA010656FC@hub.freebsd.org> <49CD13A3.1030806@gmail.com> <49CD389E.8020004@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <49CD389E.8020004@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: Blundered with gnome-desktop 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: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 22:19:22 -0000 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.