From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 17 14:42:56 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA03175 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 17 Feb 1996 14:42:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns3.noc.netcom.net (ns3.noc.netcom.net [204.31.1.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA03170 for ; Sat, 17 Feb 1996 14:42:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from tera.com (tera.tera.com [206.215.142.10]) by ns3.noc.netcom.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id OAA22682 for ; Sat, 17 Feb 1996 14:42:21 -0800 Received: from athena.tera.com by tera.com (4.1/SMI-4.0-206) id AA21681; Sat, 17 Feb 96 14:41:55 PST From: kline@tera.com (Gary Kline) Message-Id: <9602172241.AA21681@tera.com> Subject: upgrading .... To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 14:42:08 -0800 (PST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Well, I just had a brush with death or depression or panic. Or whatever. ---I've chilled considerably in recent years... but not entirely. Around 19:30 Friday night, I pulled the required XFree86, v3.12 tars off freefall. Carefully installed them; linked XF86_W32 to X. Tried to bring up X, and disaster. The server did come up, but was nothing but 3 or 4 bands of fuzzy, horizontal lines. Before turning in, I managed to boot in single mode, remove xdm from rc.local, and fsck everything. From this morning until about an hour ago I tried to get v3.12 up. No joy. There was a complaint about libc being the wrong version (I'm running FreeBSD 2.0.5). And some complaints about tar not being able to overwrite some symbolic links. The last think I tried was modifying my /etc/XF86Config to use the exact values for my ViewSonic-7 as are given in the ...doc/Monitors file. Zip. I just retrieved the old X311*.tgz from my CDROM and reinstalled. X is back. Anyone know what I'm doing so wrong? Is there a way to upgrade to v2.1 in any staged way via ftp? I'd rather not go with ``-current''. Thanks much. gary kline