Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 10:16:25 -0400 From: "Ian Bowers" <icbowers@hotmail.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: newbie question: Gnome 2.6 upgrade Message-ID: <BAY8-DAV25aVklxcqtt0000c73b@hotmail.com>
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I finally came to my senses and got a copy of FreeBSD about a week ago. = I'm very compitent in window$ and DOS, and wanted to start in on = something new. I've been toying with BSD for a while and I'm getting to = know my way around. =20 I'm having trouble upgrading to gnome 2.6. I had gnome 2.4 installed = and running just fine. I cvsup'd with the ports-supfile, and ran the = gnome_upgrade.sh file. It pondered the meaning of life until well after = I left for work. When I came home, I saw it was at the login prompt. = There were some messages that I assume have to deal with renewing DHCP = leases with my cable modem, but I logged in as normal. there was = nothing indicating a troubled install. =20 Since running cvsup and the upgrade, I can't run startx like I used to. = It used to run regardless of what directory I was in, and now I have to = be in /usr/X11R6/bin to run it. when I run it, I get the same message = as usual that says it can't contact some host server and I ned to add a = line into my /etc/hosts file. I've always gotten that one, even when = 2.4 was running perfectly smoothly. a terminal window comes up right = away after that message when gnome starts as it begins loading it's = components at the splash screen. it hangs on "window manager" but = eventually gets to the desktop with the terminal window still open. I = can't run any applications at all. it says that the indicated file is = nowhere to be found. I can run the files, epiphany for example, from = the terminal window and they run just fine as far as I can tell. =20 I'm sure there's some painfully obvious thing I haven't done, but I = can't tell what it is. I've followed the upgrade instructions to the = letter, but apaprently I'm not cool enough to pull it off. sorry for = the longwindedness.
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