Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 04:32:50 +0200 From: Alex de Kruijff <freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl> To: Gary Dunn <knowtree@aloha.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cannot update XFree86-4 Message-ID: <20040923023250.GE69299@alex.lan> In-Reply-To: <1095822601.3225.21.camel@vaiosr7k.ozland> References: <1095822601.3225.21.camel@vaiosr7k.ozland>
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On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 05:10:00PM -1000, Gary Dunn wrote: > It started with a bug-fix update to one part of XFree86. After I > installed it, my Gnome panel refused to load some applets. As the Gnome > desktop opens I get error dialogs like these: > <SNIP> > > I ran pkg_version and noticed that all of XFree86 had newer versions, > from 4.2 to 4.4. I thought I was out of whack and just needed to update > the whole thing. I did portupgrade XFree86, but it failed here: If sucha command fails then this is sometimes because the packages that it relies on also needs to be rebuild. Try portupgrade -fR XFree86\* <SNIP> > =-=-=-=-= > > I googled this and found one previous posting in August, but no reply. > > I updated my ports and 4.10 STABLE source trees and rebuilt my kernel, > but that did not help. It shoudn't > > Does it matter that my sources are on an NFS server and I only mount one > at a time (/usr/ports or /usr/src)? No its not a problem for as far as i can see. It would be handy to have you working directory localy (can be set by /etc/make.conf). This speeds up things. -- Alex Articles based on solutions that I use: http://www.kruijff.org/alex/FreeBSD/
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