From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 27 19:35:47 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 537EA10656CC for ; Fri, 27 Mar 2009 19:35:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from raszobbi@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f164.google.com (mail-bw0-f164.google.com [209.85.218.164]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FCE98FC23 for ; Fri, 27 Mar 2009 19:35:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from raszobbi@gmail.com) Received: by bwz8 with SMTP id 8so1100897bwz.43 for ; Fri, 27 Mar 2009 12:35:45 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=BRPLSZSV6vPEBQEU/2fEBCMQSR2zjC8XHnSuv96sA6U=; b=dRuxOR8fF7Qh51aPcqGP8zMB71y6necxyPW/DYJY93a61jxvrWDo1opAcW4p0fyCJR co197BcEMKkPcTdYKBFgOlQpyTZ3jo81BnpDEUIU2EhASGN7QxK3MLXSid9q6BVW2GF0 BmxutFF1LvNv9mGPnbGLLYwJo16y5j6l3CcWs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=mrTJdNPXEuSDAUCBbxCC5Qh88KPYGmF8etm/H1S0gHgmMQl9EJgqS8eCJqJgY4ZZPO iZhWzK3lvWr7IxCGUFv+9Hw03hBOHghmgBZNIldUuQOFwsyhQNIVEcLaGI7mSmQH3Cor CUWR7V6O1kX/tg6z+AZZR4qpNXQxq2BKfmFNo= Received: by 10.223.116.77 with SMTP id l13mr1920907faq.106.1238182545320; Fri, 27 Mar 2009 12:35:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ilras.barsh.com ([92.251.20.172]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id h2sm1045632fkh.9.2009.03.27.12.35.43 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 27 Mar 2009 12:35:44 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <49CD389E.8020004@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 21:35:42 +0100 From: rasz User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090327) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: manish jain References: <20090327120013.DBDA010656FC@hub.freebsd.org> <49CD13A3.1030806@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <49CD13A3.1030806@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Blundered with gnome-desktop 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: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 19:35:48 -0000 manish jain wrote: > > Hi all, > > I blundered - I downloaded the latest ports tarball and did a 'make > install' in deskutils/conduit. The conduit port asked for a deinstall > followed by a reinstall in gnome-desktop, which I promptly complied > with. As was bound to happen, everything in gnome is now > broken/paralysed. Being a gnomer, I do not want to abandon my gnome > environment. Just to make sure before attempting recovery, will the > following 2 steps generally be able to fix things for me : > > #1) > pkgdb -aF > > #2) > portupgrade -L /var/gnome2-upgrade-logs/portupgrade-%s::%s.log -l \ > /root/gnome2-portupgrade-results.txt -vrR -x gnome-desktop gnome-desktop > just in case, do you know if your gnome before this was updated to lastest version (2.24.x) ? cuz the above could get messy if you had previous version and only updated gnome-desktop. (there is something in ports/UPDATING)