From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 7 16:37:44 2004 Return-Path: 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 1A08516A4CE; Wed, 7 Apr 2004 16:37:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail3.panix.com (mail3.panix.com [166.84.1.74]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FC9C43D46; Wed, 7 Apr 2004 16:37:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jester@panix.com) Received: from panix2.panix.com (panix2.panix.com [166.84.1.2]) by mail3.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C32BD986BE; Wed, 7 Apr 2004 19:36:17 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from jester@localhost) by panix2.panix.com (8.11.6p2-a/8.8.8/PanixN1.1) id i37NaHt27985; Wed, 7 Apr 2004 19:36:17 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 19:36:17 -0400 From: Jesse Sheidlower To: Joe Marcus Clarke Message-ID: <20040407233617.GA27210@panix.com> References: <1081137325.89285.24.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20040406041355.GA9119@panix.com> <1081287656.810.10.camel@gyros> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1081287656.810.10.camel@gyros> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: FreeBSD User Questions List Subject: Re: HEADS UP: GNOME 2.6 released! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2004 23:37:44 -0000 On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 05:40:56PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 00:13, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: > > > > I'm running XFree86 4.4, which I installed from binaries on > > the XFree86 site. This is working fine for me, except that I > > often have to skip portinstall and use "make install" from the > > relevant directory, because of all the dependencies on 4.3 > > versions of things. (Using -O to force never seems to work; > > it'll build but then hang on the "Uninstalling the old version" > > stage.) [...] > > Is there any way I can upgrade to GNOME 2.6, or do I have to > > wait until XFree86 4.4 makes it into Ports, whenever that is? > > You'll have to do it manually, but you're most likely going to run into > problems. One thought might be to install the ports version of X, then > upgrade GNOME, then reinstall XF86 4.4. Thanks! A variant of that did the trick, namely to delete the 4.4 install, portinstall the Server-snap version, do the GNOME update, and realize that my needed driver is provided in 4.3.99, and I'm good to go. I am, however, having a problem with the login session. When I try to log in, I instantly get an error message with "Your session only lasted less than 10 seconds"; I can use the Failsafe GNOME session without a problem, and .xsession-errors tells me that /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libutil.so.3" not found I do have libutil.so.4 installed; is there some different package I need that provides 3? I did reinstall gnomesession, but the result was the same. Thanks! I googled for this but no one else seems to have reported the problem. Jesse Sheidlower