From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 14 9:31:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cx2037703-a.kenner1.la.home.com (cx2037703-a.kenner1.la.home.com [24.39.27.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5528E37B407 for ; Sun, 14 Oct 2001 09:31:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from conrads@localhost) by cx2037703-a.kenner1.la.home.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f9EGVoT57831; Sun, 14 Oct 2001 11:31:50 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from conrads) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.1 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200110141434.f9EEYIa06461@panix1.panix.com> Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 11:31:50 -0500 (CDT) Organization: @Home Network From: Conrad Sabatier To: stanb@panix.com Subject: Re: Help please, I've broken Gnome! Cc: (Free BSD Questions list) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 14-Oct-2001 stanb@panix.com wrote: > I decided to upgrade my machine this weekend, and now I have a problem. > No Gnome related programs will runn. gdm, and gnom-session both crash > with mssing libraries. > > here is what I did: > > 1. CVSUP to latest STABLE > 2. CVSUP latest ports. > 3. wnet to the gnome meta port and tried to build it, no luck. What does this mean exactly, "no luck"? > 4. Supidly decided to try this using packagse :-( > 5, pkg_selet'd lost's of Gnome related packes. > 6. Downlaode _all_ packages in > ftp.freebsd.or://pub/FreeBSD/ports/packages/gnome > 7. di pkg_add many many times, fetching other dependinces as they poped > up. (why will pkg_add take a maximum of 20 items at a time? why were > these > dependinces not in ~/gnome?) > 8. Now nothig works :-( > > How can I get things working again? It sounds like your original problem was that your Gnome ports were out of sync with certain libraries. A better approach may have been to try upgrading/reinstalling the library dependencies (glib, gtk, etc.) Do you have portupgrade installed (/usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade)? If not, get it. Then either use portupgrade to upgrade your installed Gnome ports (possibly with the -f switch to force a reinstall) and/or portinstall for any missing ports. This has the advantage of checking dependencies more thoroughly and upgrading anything that's not in sync. Hope this helps. -- Conrad Sabatier "The student in question is performing minimally for his peer group and is an emerging underachiever." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message