From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jun 4 23:47:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from krycek.zoominternet.net (krycek.zoominternet.net [63.67.120.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7DD8737B405 for ; Mon, 4 Jun 2001 23:47:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dmmiller@cvzoom.net) Received: (qmail 18933 invoked from network); 5 Jun 2001 06:43:53 -0000 Received: from acs-24-154-37-140.zoominternet.net (HELO cvzoom.net) (24.154.37.140) by krycek.zoominternet.net with SMTP; 5 Jun 2001 06:43:53 -0000 Message-ID: <3B1C8066.91917B89@cvzoom.net> Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 02:47:02 -0400 From: Donn Miller X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: parv Cc: FreeBSD-STABLE Subject: Re: XFree86-4.1 appears to be broken References: <20010604065030.A20441@johncoop> <20010604222651.A9057@moo.holy.cow> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG parv wrote: > short answer, john, is, for me, the fresh cvs tree of XFree installed > w/o a single problem, which identified (in make logs) as > 4.0.99.9* ... good enough for me... > > ...and now the whole story... > > something weird happened to me this morning... for some reason i > blasted away my XFree86 4.0.3 version + assorted programs. Don't do that. What you should do is cd /usr mv X11R6 X11R6.old {cd to the directory containing xc and} make install install.man Then, what you could do is something like: find /usr/X11R6 | xargs chflags schg This will protect your freshly installed XFree86 from being overwritten. Then, cp all your old files over with cp -R; chflags will deny you from over-writing the freshly installed files. After you're finished, just do chflags -R noschg /usr/X11R6 Then, and only then, if everything looks OK, you can rm -rf /usr/X11R6.old. See, my experience has been that you can't just install a new version of XFree86 over the existing one, because it always caused the "make install" to fail. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message