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Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 18:49:03 +0200
From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 12:00:13 -0400 (EDT), doug wrote:
> I was running 8.2 stable and kde3.5. Originally I want to install chrome. I 
> trying to update the many interlocking components I eventually got to the point 
> where I thought I would just start again so I removed all ports.
> 
> At this point I lost networking, neither DHCP or manually configuring an IP 
> address worked so I put my data on a USB drive and really started over. My 
> question is would rebuilding the world likely have worked? If what else should I 
> have tried before jumping off the deep end? Thanks for any thoughts

It should _not_ happen that removing installed ports prevents
you from gaining essential networking functionality, such as
obtaining data per DHCP.

If you have installed the sources (/usr/src subtree), and the
required building tools are working, try to rebuild world and
install it as described in /usr/src/Makefile's comment section.
If your world _matches_ the kernel installed, you can omit that
step. In case it does _not_, you'll have to rebuild both world
and kernel.

Afterwards, you should be able to reinstall all needed ports
and then restore the data to the system.


-- 
Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...