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Date:      Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:45:29 -0500
From:      Stephen Clark <sclark46@earthlink.net>
To:        Dan Allen <danallen46@airwired.net>
Cc:        bms@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Robert Noland <rnoland@freebsd.org>, Alex Goncharov <alex-goncharov@comcast.net>
Subject:   Re: Unhappy Xorg upgrade
Message-ID:  <49822379.3010203@earthlink.net>
In-Reply-To: <01CB956E-94C0-4819-8362-D24347405C67@airwired.net>
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Dan Allen wrote:
> Thanks to Robert for pointing out a few things to me.
> 
> I have run
> 
>     portupgrade -rf libxcb
> 

I normally run portupgrade -WrRpPa
This is what I ran and it totally hosed my system.
I had to revert back to an earlier version to be able to
bring X back up.

This should have compiled and built everything that was affected
by the new X stuff - but it obviously didn't.

> and it rebuilt quite a few pieces that had not been rebuilt in the 
> standard portupgrade that gave me X.org 7.4 in the first place.
> 
> After rebuilding firefox and a bunch of smaller libraries, my keyboard 
> and mouse work, and so does firefox and my other apps.
> 
> Thanks to everyone else for emailing me with ideas and suggestions!
> 
> Dan
>  
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