From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 23 14:14:06 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 1E21D16A41C for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2005 14:14:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lawrence.petrykanyn@sympatico.ca) Received: from tomts13-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts13-srv.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.34]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89CFD43D55 for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2005 14:14:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lawrence.petrykanyn@sympatico.ca) Received: from elmo ([70.48.100.162]) by tomts13-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.10 201-253-122-130-110-20040306) with SMTP id <20050623141400.FTQS25800.tomts13-srv.bellnexxia.net@elmo> for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2005 10:14:00 -0400 From: "Lawrence Petrykanyn" To: Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 22:14:45 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Newbie - Trouble Installing Gnome2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 14:14:06 -0000 Hi, In order to have a clean start, I installed FreeBSD 5.4 from scratch (disc1, only). I choose the installation option "All system sources, binaries and and X Window System". Everything went well. The first thing I did after the system rebooted was a portupgrade -a. Then I did a cvsup with the following supfile... *default tag=. *default host=cvsup10.FreeBSD.org *default prefix=/usr *default base=/var/db *default release=cvs delete use-rel-suffix compress src-all ports-all ..as per instructions in Appendix A of the Handbook. That went well. Then I ran "cvs mysupfile". It ran for quite a while, but gave no error messages, so I guess it went well. Then I did "Xorg -configure" and everything worked okay and got into xterm. Next I went to /usr/ports/x11/gnome2 and did "make install clean". This ran for hours, occasionally prompting me for preferences, then it stopped. Here is what it said... Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp-FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/ghostscript/. fetch: ghostscripts-fonts-std-8.11.tar.gz: local modification does not match remote => Couldn't find it - please try to retrieve this => port manually in /usr/ports/distfiles/ghostscript and try again. ***Error Code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/print/gsfonts ***Error Code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/print/ghostscript-gnu ***Error Code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/print/ggv ***Error Code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/gnome2 ...so, what happened? I am a newbie and don't understand what "porting manually" to retrieve this file means. Should I just start from scratch again and reinstall? I don't have any files on my disk that I have to back up. And if/when I reinstall, is it sufficient to just select the "Average User" distribution set and just add additional files, as I need them? Any advice, comments and suggestions would be very appreciated at this time. Thanks in advance, Lawrence