From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 6 12:44:06 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1B400D46 for ; Fri, 6 Jun 2014 12:44:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wg0-x22c.google.com (mail-wg0-x22c.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c00::22c]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A856A2C15 for ; Fri, 6 Jun 2014 12:44:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wg0-f44.google.com with SMTP id x13so27555wgg.3 for ; Fri, 06 Jun 2014 05:44:03 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=from:to:subject:date:message-id:user-agent:mime-version :content-transfer-encoding:content-type; bh=6o9Nqyv6Kp1196gC+Ll1MYW4KWJYfQuGcXz/JxLYbPE=; b=tWNaVfgyNAV+vd3ErXaRBXBlGUezzzlXyv8y9CDUlyQ1XTzxIYizV1Lguwwjvcqtke 0D/2RsGWWWNDgqSF4wT0j84Bx+nV/zdyQZ3rJVsRvC+3Qftri8rvrbP2t0mZu88br8ek /ttdPepc+jlfw8rG+mRya2xyO3wkoPGIbU+yz6qsvhE81Xdrl7MDAqePoi5Yru0Abr4n jblUgBKwGfiN/HyJMXBVBVSysLtJBXf6XR20rYb7Gpop+IbBazWMJRWSDhyJSbli9Zpc pLVgTtwH9lDGqZna5ds++8DllqEkFqVCjCQ489NZZx9mqqzabcQ0bmsiIHvd4O3wPzlk n+UA== X-Received: by 10.180.103.228 with SMTP id fz4mr5289504wib.4.1402058643893; Fri, 06 Jun 2014 05:44:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kontrol.kode5.net (host86-169-141-40.range86-169.btcentralplus.com. [86.169.141.40]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id p18sm59835188wik.3.2014.06.06.05.44.00 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Fri, 06 Jun 2014 05:44:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Jamie Paul Griffin X-Google-Original-From: Jamie Paul Griffin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Upgrading KDE4 and General pkg upgrade problems Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2014 13:43:48 +0100 Message-ID: <4903397.pLvGkmexfb@kontrol.kode5.net> User-Agent: KMail/4.10.5 (FreeBSD/10.0-STABLE; KDE/4.10.5; amd64; ; ) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2014 12:44:06 -0000 My machine was not in use for a few months and when I booted it up the other day I naturally wanted to upgrade my packages. This brought about terrible problems resulting in me having to remove every package and start over. I had to remove a few in order to get past some pkg warnings. Then when the packages did download and install I had a problem with kdm which is started automatically using the "kdm4_enable" rc.conf variable, producing an error code and quitting the X server. Google revealed several posts where this issue has occurred to other users. I gathered that the X server needs to be rebuilt using the "WITH_NEW_XORG" make.conf variable and then a number of graphical software components require rebuilding also, with portmaster finally taking care of the remaining software upgrades. I just want to know what is the steps needed to upgrade KDE4 from version 4.10 to 4.12? Also can I be sure that my video card will work with the new X server having used the WITH_NEW_XORG make.conf configuration thing? As it happens I've reverted back to the packages I had before attempting the upgrade by setting pkg.conf url to ...release/0 rather than ...latest as I read somewhere on the internet. I understand work is underway to get pkg to overcome these version compatibility issues, has that been completed or is it some way off yet? Thanks for reading. Jamie.