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Date:      Tue, 22 May 2012 14:23:41 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To:        Jeremy Messenger <mezz.freebsd@gmail.com>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: xorg problems
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1205221402030.53529@wonkity.com>
In-Reply-To: <CADLFttebX59Y3TGMtZt70-W0qndu6wu6EPU1gbkyVkc2V4bmvA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, 22 May 2012, Jeremy Messenger wrote:

> On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 2:20 PM, Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote:
>> Since a port upgrade yesterday, there have been some occasional graphical
>> garblings in text in terminal windows and title bars.  My saved example went
>> away when X went away.  Rebuilding everything the xfce4 port depended on
>> doesn't seem to have cured it, nor did rebuilding everything the xorg port
>> depends on.
>>
>> Starting X one time seems to work.  Quit X and restart it, and the machine
>> reboots.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>
> Since you didn't tell us what 'a port upgrade'. I am guessing that it
> might be cairo, so try to downgrade cairo and see if it helps. You do
> not need to rebuild ports for that.

Sorry, I should have mentioned that.  There were half a dozen or so new 
port versions last night, and then I ran portmaster --check-depends 
afterwards, which updated the dates on all of /var/db/pkg, so 'ls -ltr 
/var/db/pkg' failed me.

Here's an example: http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/garbled/garbled.jpg

That is from post #8 in this thread, which might be related:
http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=32220
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