Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 12:21:43 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Lonnie Santella <lonniesantella@hotmail.com> Subject: Re: Upgrading Expat2 in FreeBSD 5.2.1 Message-ID: <200406211221.43228.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <BAY15-F8aG1Da9PNisb00015dda@hotmail.com> References: <BAY15-F8aG1Da9PNisb00015dda@hotmail.com>
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On Monday 21 June 2004 12:16 pm, Lonnie Santella wrote: > In order to install latest ports of Apache1.3 and MySQL 4.20 - I > received a system error informing me to upgrade expat2. > > So I run my CVSUP get all the latest ports, then run it again with > just upgrading the BASE. > > Now I upgrade to expat2 (expat-1.95.7) which was successful according > to pkg_info: > > However, now I can't start X - when I attempt to, I get a gray > screen, a working mouse pointer, and a small message window that > reads: "could not start KDEInit. Check your installation." There is > only an "ok" button and when I click it, it goes back to text mode, > with another error message which is repeated several times: > > "/libexec/ld.elf.so.1: Shared object "libexpat.so.4" not found" > > I've searched through threads and groups - no luck on this one. Why > does this happen? I've recreated the issue 4 times on different > machines with fresh installs of FreeBSD 5.2.1. > > How do I upgrade expat2 without this problem? > You didn't read /usr/prots/UPDATING. There was an interface change and all of the ports that used expat2 had to be rebuilt. Read UPDATING and then do the -rf update. Kent > Thanks very much for your advice, > > Lonnie > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html
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