From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 13 10:28:48 2003 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 32C1A37B401 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 10:28:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6465F43F85 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 10:28:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from topaz-out (owt-207-41-94-233.owt.com [207.41.94.233]) by rutger.owt.com (8.11.6/8.9.3) with ESMTP id h2DIShp12156; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 10:28:43 -0800 From: Kent Stewart To: pippo@bellnet.ca, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: portupgrade mess Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 10:28:43 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <5.1.0.14.2.20030313110908.00b5fb68@mail.host45.com> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20030313110908.00b5fb68@mail.host45.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200303131028.43307.kstewart@owt.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday 13 March 2003 08:15 am, pippo@bellnet.ca wrote: > I just upgrade XFree86 from 4.2 to 4.3 using portupgrade on 2 > different machines. On one portupgrade seems to have worked ok, > except that XFree86 does not function quite correctly - I shall > assume it is an XFree86 problem. > > The second machine is totally screwed up - even though the upgrade > did not work, the previous installation is now shot. Startx does not > bring up kde3. I really don't know what to do - should I deinstall > XFree86 or what? portversion does not work since dependencies are no > longer valid. I have never fully understood how the dependencies > function in portsdb -F. I don't know how this can be correctly fixed? > I don't understand why the upgrade did not work. > Does anyone understand any of this? > Thanks for any suggestions... I just hit the same thing. It doesn't like the names of my video cards. It is more specific now and I ended up running xf86cfg again. Everything works fine now. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message