From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 30 15:30:13 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 133C316A416 for ; Thu, 30 Nov 2006 15:30:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@cupid.com) Received: from email.rhwi.net (email.rhwi.net [64.72.68.244]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15C4A43CA2 for ; Thu, 30 Nov 2006 15:30:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@cupid.com) Received: (qmail 56597 invoked by uid 89); 30 Nov 2006 15:30:11 -0000 Received: from dan.internal.rhw (HELO ?192.168.1.82?) (dsikorsky@rhwi.net@192.168.1.82) by email.rhwi.net with SMTP; 30 Nov 2006 15:30:11 -0000 Message-ID: <456EF902.80606@cupid.com> Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 10:30:10 -0500 From: Dan Sikorsky Organization: RegionalHelpWanted/Cupid.com User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (Windows/20061025) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: upgrading gnome 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: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 15:30:13 -0000 freebsd 6.1 xorg 6.9 Hey, I have gnome 2.12 trying to upgrade to 2.16 i tried everything from pkg_add (obviously deleting the old one first) to portmanager to portinstall to port upgrade and building it from the ports tree.. things fail.... one major problem I was having was gail... but i think I have beaten that because now i get another error, cant remember it at the moment but its irrelevant. I have broken my current gnome installation... when i startx... it will load all my panels, and any app will run fine, but the *desktop* its self is missing, including the background image. If i go into Desktop Background, it will load, but still I cant right click on the desktop, and there are no icons, and no way to add them (they are however still listed in my usr/home/dan/Desktop ) I've managed to break all kinds of things, Realplyer wont work now, because I unistalled my old linux base with portmaster for example..... does anybody know of a good way to WIPE gnome, and rebuild it and its Dependant ports from the ground up? I dont want to re-install my freebsd, as Ive worked very hard to get everything from my M-audio sound card, my custom kernel, and giant fat32 drives, to my apache server etc etc etc, im sure you are all in the same boat if you are using freebsd thanks -- Dan Sikorsky *Systems Admin/GoldMine Admin* RegionalHelpWanted.com,Inc. & Cupid.com, Inc. 845-471-5200 x220 One Civic Center Plaza, Suite 506 Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 /http://RegionalHelpWanted.com http://Cupid.com/