Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2007 14:00:13 +0000 From: Adam J Richardson <fatman@crackmonkey.us> To: Andrew Falanga <af300wsm@gmail.com> Cc: User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Botched X.org upgrade, need help Message-ID: <473467ED.1010107@crackmonkey.us> In-Reply-To: <340a29540711080658y2567679epd1e11c584d1c9ed2@mail.gmail.com> References: <340a29540711080658y2567679epd1e11c584d1c9ed2@mail.gmail.com>
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Andrew Falanga wrote: > Well, at last I think it's botched. I really was following the directions > (I have the script file as UPDATING suggests to prove it :-), but the > upgrade didn't work as the X server failed to start after I rebooted. I'm > hoping some kind person here will know the answer before I e-mail the list > mentioned in that section of UPDATING. Anyway, that's basically, what > happened. I have kdm set to start on bootup and it complained that X failed > to start. > > When I got to the point of "portupgrade -aP" in the UPDATING section for > X.org 6.9 -> 7.2; I decided to go with that command instead of "portupgrade > -a" thinking that by now, even for amd64, the packages would be available. > Perhaps a bad assumption. Anyway, once that completed, the stats reported > by portupgrade were disconcerting but I thought that it was ok and > continued. portupgrade reported that only 2 packages were porcessed, most > were ignored with 50 some skipped and 1 failed. > > I then proceeded to the mergebase.sh script, ran that and when I was > satisfied that all was done as expected, I rebooted my machine. Well, > that's when X failed to start. So, how would I go about correcting this > problem? > > Andy Hi Andy, I botched my 6.9-7.2 upgrade too. It's easy to do even if you follow the instructions. Can't remember what the problem was now, certainly it was something no one else had, typical. :^) Ah well, all fixed now anyway. It's easy to botch even a simple install of X. Took me a while to learn that you have to install 1) Xorg, 2) mesa-demos, 3) nVidia driver, in that order (assuming you want mesa-demos, of course). Regards, Adam J Richardson
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