From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 23 10:22:57 2005 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 1A2F516A4CE for ; Sun, 23 Jan 2005 10:22:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: from jupiter.picknowl.com.au (jupiter.picknowl.com.au [203.87.94.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 673F843D4C for ; Sun, 23 Jan 2005 10:22:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from imoore@picknowl.com.au) Received: from daemon.foo.lan (adsl-176-70.swiftdsl.com.au [218.214.176.70]) by jupiter.picknowl.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11EA396DB9; Sun, 23 Jan 2005 20:52:55 +1030 (CST) From: Ian Moore To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 20:52:45 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 References: <1106443760.1123.7.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1106443760.1123.7.camel@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1148682.3BU1GOqSIO"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200501232052.54265.imoore@picknowl.com.au> cc: Trey Sizemore Subject: Re: KDE issues after recent portupgrade 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: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 10:22:57 -0000 --nextPart1148682.3BU1GOqSIO Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 11:59, Trey Sizemore wrote: > >From the /usr/ports/UPDATING entry: > > 20040313: > AFFECTS: users of textproc/expat2 > AUTHOR: marcus@FreeBSD.org > > Users of expat2 (and its many dependencies) should do the following to > properly update expat2 and all of its dependencies: > > portupgrade -rf textproc/expat2 > > I did the mentioned portupgrade above and a *lot* of packages were > reinstalled, among those KDE. I'm not sure in retrospect that I needed > to do this as I only installed FreeBSD on this box a couple of months > ago. Anyway, since the upgrade Konqueror crashes when started in a > directory (core dumps) as a file browser, KDE notifications no longer > work (although sound from Gnome apps *do* work -> I have > gnome-session-daemon start when I log into KDE) and k3b won't start any > longer for starters. > > What would be the best way to try an rectify this? Reinstall kde from > scratch with a 'portupgrade -rf /usr/ports/X11/kde3' or something else > entirely? > > All the aforementioned apps were working prior to the portupgrade > command mentioned in UPDATING. You could try removing the kde packages & install packages instead - the=20 =46reeBSD-KDE people seem to suggest that's the prefered method for KDE. See http://rabarber.fruitsalad.org/index.html for the correct PACKAGESITE=20 setting to use with portupgrade. Having said that, the latest ports have some more recent updates, so=20 kdenetwork & one or two others will still need to be compliled from ports t= o=20 get you fully up to date. I've found that method to work well for me & it saves a hell of a lot of=20 compilation time! Cheers, =2D-=20 Ian GPG Key: http://homepages.picknowl.com.au/imoore/imoore.asc --nextPart1148682.3BU1GOqSIO Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBB83r+fITqkXhImmIRAvjYAKC6ueNJS0kR93X7iO/EMpiKUfrHXQCffGjG wo92teV8xi0i1IHIhGKNlZ0= =Exn7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1148682.3BU1GOqSIO--