From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 9 14:00:51 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D72216A41B for ; Fri, 9 Nov 2007 14:00:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fatman@crackmonkey.us) Received: from crackmonkey.us (crackmonkey.us [70.58.166.197]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00EE313C4B6 for ; Fri, 9 Nov 2007 14:00:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fatman@crackmonkey.us) Received: from miroku-bosatsu.dreamtrack.dnsalias.com (cpc1-swin7-0-0-cust216.brhm.cable.ntl.com [::ffff:86.18.88.217]) (AUTH: PLAIN fatman, TLS: TLSv1/SSLv3,256bits,AES256-SHA) by crackmonkey.us with esmtp; Fri, 09 Nov 2007 07:00:26 -0700 id 00054319.473467FF.0000685E Message-ID: <473467ED.1010107@crackmonkey.us> Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2007 14:00:13 +0000 From: Adam J Richardson User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20071102) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Falanga References: <340a29540711080658y2567679epd1e11c584d1c9ed2@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <340a29540711080658y2567679epd1e11c584d1c9ed2@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: User Questions Subject: Re: Botched X.org upgrade, need help X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: fatman@.N0.5P4M.crackmonkey.us List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2007 14:00:51 -0000 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