From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 8 13:15:22 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C3F616A41F for ; Tue, 8 Nov 2005 13:15:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from mail21.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail21.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.23]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F36C843D48 for ; Tue, 8 Nov 2005 13:15:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (qmail 4171 invoked from network); 8 Nov 2005 13:15:21 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail21.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 8 Nov 2005 13:15:20 -0000 Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id D728C28441; Tue, 8 Nov 2005 08:15:19 -0500 (EST) Sender: lowell@be-well.ilk.org To: Bob Perry References: <4370468B.9060407@gti.net> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 08 Nov 2005 08:15:19 -0500 In-Reply-To: <4370468B.9060407@gti.net> Message-ID: <4464r3nuvs.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 30 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Major Error Upgrading to GNOME 2.12 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, 08 Nov 2005 13:15:22 -0000 Bob Perry writes: > This past weekend, I CVSup'd the ports tree and prepared to run > portupgrade. I noticed a large number of GNOME ports in my output > from pkg_version and, found that I would need to run the GNOME Project > 's upgrade script to upgrade to 2.12. > > I use a dial-up modem had been timed out on several occasions.during > the process This happened about three times during the night and I > had to restart the upgrade each time. Note that I failed to use the > restart flag recommended during the first restart. I finally ended up > with a "succesful upgrade..." message even though I now have only 188 > ports after beginning with 297. Amongst the missing is gnome 2.12 > itself. > > I'm hoping there is some way to get things back to normal and rerun > the upgrade without re-installing the missing ports. BTW, I did back > up /var/db/pkg. > > Any advice would be appreciated. I run 5.4 -RELEASE #0. I'm running > this message from a second machine but should be able to supply the > logs if needed. In the worst case, you should be able to delete all the Gnome-related ports and re-add them. [I did that on purpose, because my only Gnome machine is *so* much slower than my build server.] -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/