From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 29 06:53:44 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA35416A473 for ; Tue, 29 May 2007 06:53:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx24.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.7]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 525AC13C4C9 for ; Tue, 29 May 2007 06:53:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 18851 invoked by uid 399); 29 May 2007 06:53:43 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO lap.dougb.net) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 29 May 2007 06:53:43 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 Message-ID: <465BCDF6.8010004@FreeBSD.org> Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 23:53:42 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070525) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marijn van Vliet References: <20070527215727.GD67158@lassie.student.utwente.nl> In-Reply-To: <20070527215727.GD67158@lassie.student.utwente.nl> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 OpenPGP: id=D5B2F0FB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xorg 7.2 update X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 06:53:45 -0000 Marijn van Vliet wrote: > I had this and another problem when upgrading. This problem was sovled > by correcting the paths in xorg.conf. The other problem was a message > about the default font (fixed) not being found. This is solved by manually > reinstalling font-misc-misc and font-cursor-mic: > portupgrade -f font-misc-misc font-cursor-misc > > Why this works, I have no idea. Do the fonts get corrupted by the > mergebase script? After some googling I noticed more users were having > this problem. It's part of the the chicken and egg problem I described in my "how to do the xorg upgrade with portmaster" post. If you have the right combination of old stuff installed, and the new stuff is built in just the wrong order, pkg_delete'ing the old stuff will delete some of the new files. Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection