From owner-freebsd-gnome Fri Dec 6 15:21:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7676337B401 for ; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 15:21:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (rdu57-17-158.nc.rr.com [66.57.17.158]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C649A43ECD for ; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 15:21:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcus@FreeBSD.org) Received: from [192.168.1.4] (shumai.marcuscom.com [192.168.1.4]) by creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gB6NL0vi006587 for ; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 18:21:00 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from marcus@FreeBSD.org) Subject: A note on why portupgrade is a good thing From: Joe Marcus Clarke To: gnome@FreeBSD.org Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-CM8sD8tyzAaflus9VMsg" Organization: FreeBSD, Inc. Message-Id: <1039216864.352.82.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.0 Date: 06 Dec 2002 18:21:04 -0500 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,NOSPAM_INC,PGP_SIGNATURE_2,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01 version=2.43 Sender: owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --=-CM8sD8tyzAaflus9VMsg Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I just got done fixing a user's Evolution install where they were getting CORBA communication errors trying to launch the mail component.=20 Turns out, he had multiple copies of quite a few ports installed (Evo, gtkhtml, gnomespell, etc.). After removing the dups, then doing a forced upgrade of all the dup'd ports, things started to work. Just a reminder that portupgrade is really the only way to go when upgrading GNOME components. And pkgdb -F is your friend when weeding out problems in the ports tree. Joe --=20 Joe Marcus Clarke FreeBSD GNOME Team :: marcus@FreeBSD.org http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome --=-CM8sD8tyzAaflus9VMsg Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA98TDfb2iPiv4Uz4cRAhw4AJ9ROBlV7w0ifR3bOIDEt2BGsYJGkgCfQ9lZ GNAfK1D/5uXAgBREXCUUiQ8= =JjsA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-CM8sD8tyzAaflus9VMsg-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message