From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 29 20:37:12 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 934EF16A4CE for ; Fri, 29 Apr 2005 20:37:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp103.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp103.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com [206.190.36.81]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EDA3043D53 for ; Fri, 29 Apr 2005 20:37:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Mike.Jeays@rogers.com) Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.2.150?) (mjeays2551@24.114.152.139 with plain) by smtp103.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 29 Apr 2005 20:37:10 -0000 From: Mike Jeays To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1114807030.3078.12.camel@chaucer> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 16:37:10 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Ports update gone badly wrong 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: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 20:37:12 -0000 I think I have made a horrendeous mess of my workstation. I have been running 5.3 with no problem, and then I tried to csvup the ports files, using the following section in ports-supfile. Note I didn't change the release tag! I updated a few of the ports, including Evolution and Firefox, and had trouble with missing libraries, such as libgthread .. 400 having been rename to ..600.. The machine now feels less stable than an old version of Windows. Things like Tk.pm and other Perl modules no longer work, and won't reinstall. I had to copy over the missing libraries for Evolution and Firefox from another machine. Any advice for recovery, other than a re-installation and fresh start? What should I do next time? # IMPORTANT: Change the next line to use one of the CVSup mirror sites # listed at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/mirrors.html. *default host=ftp4.FreeBSD.org *default base=/var/db *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs tag=. *default delete use-rel-suffix