From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 25 05:41:14 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DB85106564A for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 05:41:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bennett@cs.niu.edu) Received: from mp.cs.niu.edu (mp.cs.niu.edu [131.156.68.41]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5702A8FC13 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 05:41:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bennett@cs.niu.edu) Received: from mp.cs.niu.edu (bennett@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mp.cs.niu.edu (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m2P5eFnm021474; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:40:15 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:40:15 -0500 (CDT) From: Scott Bennett Message-Id: <200803250540.m2P5eFCl021473@mp.cs.niu.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Dominic Fandrey Cc: Subject: Re: X.org 7.3 sure is a mess... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 05:41:14 -0000 Sorry about the delay in my response. I got tied up in lots of unrelated matters for several days. On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:55:43 +0100 Dominic Fandrey wrote: >Scott Bennett wrote: >> Now that I've upgraded to X.org 7.3, I'm wishing that I hadn't done it. >> ... >> I'm still discovering more and more broken stuff in 7.3 each day. It's >> only partially usable. ... > >Did you check the integrity of your libraries? Are you maybe using portupgrade >that keeps copies of old libraries in /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg ? Maybe some >things are still linked against these, this can lead to a load of trouble. > >You can install sysutils/bsdadminscripts and run pkg_libchk to check the >integrity of your system. > Thank you for that suggestion. I tried running it, and it did produce some messages like diablo-jre-1.5.0.07.01_3: /usr/local/diablo-jre1.5.0/lib/i386/libdcpr.so misses libjvm.so However, xscreensaver{,-demo} did not appear in the output, nor did firefox. The only package with a name beginning "xorg-" that appeared got this message: xorg-printserver-6.9.0_2: /usr/X11R6/bin/Xprt misses libXdmcp.so.0 I'm not sure what to do about these or the others that were listed, but in any case, the bsdadminscripts package of scripts appears to deal only with packages and not with ports installed as ports rather than packages. Because the X.org upgrade process builds essentially all of the X.org core software from ports, the scripts have limited applicability to the current situation. Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ********************************************************************** * Internet: bennett at cs.niu.edu * *--------------------------------------------------------------------* * "A well regulated and disciplined militia, is at all times a good * * objection to the introduction of that bane of all free governments * * -- a standing army." * * -- Gov. John Hancock, New York Journal, 28 January 1790 * **********************************************************************