From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 8 14:16:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49A3715245 for ; Mon, 8 Nov 1999 14:15:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@wintelcom.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA14418; Mon, 8 Nov 1999 14:39:15 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 8 Nov 1999 14:39:14 -0800 (PST) From: Alfred Perlstein To: Jonathon McKitrick Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gnome/pkg install problem In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > Somewhere during 'make install' for gnome, it hung during 'registering pkg > info'. Well, i waited and > waited, nothing happened. So i hit ctrl-C. Well, gnome won't work (big > surprise). I tried to reinstall, it said i have to deinstall first. When > i try this, it says /var/db/pkg has no +CONTENTS. Sure enough, everyh > other pkg has CONTENTS, except this last one, gnome. I tried looking in > the pkg directory in the ports tree, but apparently CONTENTS is built > during the install. How can i uninstall enough to reinstall, or force the > reinstall? Also, to start gnome, i include 'panel &' in my .xinitrc, > correct? make -DFORCE_PKG_REGISTER maybe: make reinstall -DFORCE_PKG_REGISTER ? -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message