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Date:      Thu, 17 May 2007 09:02:56 -0700 (PDT)
From:      KAYVEN  RIESE <kayve@sfsu.edu>
To:        Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-stable-local@be-well.ilk.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: xfce4 broke after pkgdb -Ff
Message-ID:  <Pine.SOC.4.64.0705170901570.25365@libra.sfsu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <44tzubr4u6.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
References:  <464B114C.5080703@net4.in> <464B1D6A.1040809@samsco.org> <Pine.SOC.4.64.0705160849530.8669@libra.sfsu.edu> <44tzubr4u6.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>

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so the "-r" option will be the significant difference for the portupgrade
comamnd, just verifying

On Thu, 17 May 2007, Lowell Gilbert wrote:

> KAYVEN  RIESE <kayve@sfsu.edu> writes:
>
>> i did the command pkgdb -Ff and it broke my X (xfce4)  the desktop
>> had been able to come up, but the cursor was the "X" that it has
>> while it is booting.. i was able to start a terminal, but not a mozilla
>> browser.  i had been able to use the terminal, but i could not move it
>> around the desktop.
>>
>> pkgdb -Ff had had a pango problem, so i did a portupgrade -f pango.
>>
>> now i can't even get a terminal in my xfce4
>
> I think you missed some of the instructions in /usr/ports/UPDATING.
> I'm also a bit confused on exactly what you did, because pkgdb doesn't
> make any changes to the programs you can run.  At this point, you need
> to start by making sure that programs that use pango are updated to
> use the new one.  Something like "portupgrade -fr pango".
>
> This question would probably have been most appropriate for the
> freebsd-ports mailing list.
>
> Be well.
>



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