From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 23 09:45:00 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 10CAF16A4CF for ; Wed, 23 Jun 2004 09:45:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: from av8-2-sn2.hy.skanova.net (av8-2-sn2.hy.skanova.net [81.228.8.111]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB3AA43D39 for ; Wed, 23 Jun 2004 09:44:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ertr1013@student.uu.se) Received: by av8-2-sn2.hy.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id B9BB537E59; Wed, 23 Jun 2004 11:44:53 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smtp2-2-sn2.hy.skanova.net (smtp2-2-sn2.hy.skanova.net [81.228.8.178]) by av8-2-sn2.hy.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACF3937E43 for ; Wed, 23 Jun 2004 11:44:53 +0200 (CEST) Received: from falcon.midgard.homeip.net (h201n1fls24o1048.bredband.comhem.se [212.181.162.201]) by smtp2-2-sn2.hy.skanova.net (Postfix) with SMTP id BC9BD37E48 for ; Wed, 23 Jun 2004 11:44:56 +0200 (CEST) Received: (qmail 61011 invoked by uid 1001); 23 Jun 2004 09:44:56 -0000 Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 11:44:56 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson To: Andreas Davour Message-ID: <20040623094456.GA60995@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> Mail-Followup-To: Andreas Davour , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20040623090259.GA60494@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I messed up, removed /usr/X11R6/lib 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, 23 Jun 2004 09:45:00 -0000 On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 11:39:22AM +0200, Andreas Davour wrote: > On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, Erik Trulsson wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 10:34:02AM +0200, Andreas Davour wrote: > > > > > > Hi. > > > > > > Apart from the obvious answer to use the backup, is there any way to get > > > it all back in /usr/X11R6/lib after you did a 'rm -fr' to many? > > > > > > I have reinstalled the /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4 port which I had hoped > > > would pull back in all needed stuff. But, now X complains about some > > > missing parts which I don't know where they come from. Anyone know how I > > > can get it all back? > > > > > > The Errors: > > > (EE) Failed to load module "bitmap" (module does not exist, 0) > > > (EE) Failed to load module "pcidata" (module does not exist, 0) > > > > > > Where do I find them? > > > > Those two come from the x11-server/XFree86-4-Server port, but there are > > *lots* of programs that install files under /usr/X11R6/lib - most programs > > that use X and install shared libraries put the libraries there, for > > example, so be prepared for more problems appearing. > > Ok, XFree86-4-Server it was. X started working after I reinstalled that > one. Thanks. I guess problems will appear later on, but at least X is > working right now and KDE don't seem to be broken. Hopefully after a few > cvsup's I will be back were I started. > > > Restoring from backups sounds like a good idea. The other possibility > > is to reinstall all programs you have. > > The latter sounds triesome. I remember how long time it took to compile > OpenOffice and all of KDE, even om my 1200MHz machine. Yeah, those are well-known for taking forever to compile. I think you might be in luck with KDE since that seems to put its files under /usr/local (while GNOME programs tend to put their files under /usr/X11R6). I don't know where OpenOffice installs to. > > I will seriously look at the idea of wiping my labsystem and use that disk > for backups instead. Backups are always a good idea. I really should start making backups myself. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se