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Date:      Sat, 19 Nov 2005 14:45:52 -0500
From:      "Robert H. Perry" <rperry@gti.net>
To:        "Robert H. Perry" <rperry@gti.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Startx Missing Following Portupgrade
Message-ID:  <437F80F0.7030405@gti.net>
In-Reply-To: <437F3342.3050300@gti.net>
References:  <437F3342.3050300@gti.net>

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Robert H. Perry wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm running FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE #0 on two machines and just CVSup'd my 
> systems last night finishing with portupgrade this morning.  I ran into 
> a problem with machine #1.  I ran portupgrade and stumbled with the 
> xterm and x11-fonts/linux-fontconfig upgrades.  I tried to run startx to 
> google the problems but got: command not found.
> 
> Reinstalling linux-base seemed to resolve the x11-fonts problem.  I then 
>   deinstalled, and reinstalled xorg-clients to upgrade it and ran 
> portupgrade -aRr.  No more apparent problems.  However, still unable to 
> run startx.  I searched /usr/X11R6/bin and couldn't locate the file either.
> 
> The second machine was also upgrading and I noticed the same/similar 
> failure to install xterm 206_1 due to a conflict with xorg-clients.  I 
> haven't attempted to fix it yet for fear of losing startx here also.
> 
> I'm thinking of deinstalling/reinstalling one, or more ports to 
> reinstall startx on machine #1.  (Not sure which ones, however). Any 
> suggestions?
> 
> Thnx,
> Bob Perry
> 
> 
Pls disregard.  Xorgclients was missing entirely.

Bob Perry



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