From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 30 22:22:39 2002 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 64F8937B400 for ; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 22:22:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from valis.olywa.net (valis.olywa.net [216.173.192.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0483343E4A for ; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 22:22:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from corey@snowpoint.com) Received: from intrepid.snowpoint.com ([216.173.213.173]) by valis.olywa.net (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-56662U5000L500S0V35) with ESMTP id net; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 22:22:36 -0700 Received: from ([216.173.213.170]) by intrepid.snowpoint.com (Merak 4.4.2) with SMTP id HUB36795; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 22:17:08 -0700 From: "Corey Snow" To: Mark Stosberg Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 22:19:21 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Problem installing xfree86 under 4.6.2 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <3D6FEF69.7506.3634146B@localhost> References: <200208302314.g7UNEmP02834@pacbell.net> In-reply-to: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 30 Aug 2002, at 23:04, Mark Stosberg wrote: > On Fri, 30 Aug 2002 paleph@pacbell.net wrote: > > > Hi > > > > I have a 4.5 system that I've been trying to upgrade to 4.6.2. Everything > > goes well upto the point that I try to install xfree86. Using either > > sysinstall or the command line install program, I get the following > > error: > > > > XFree86 configuraiton process seems to have filed. Do you want to try again.` > > If I had to guess, you were probably running XFree86 3.3.6 before, and > as part of the upgrade to 4.6.2, XFree86 4.2 got installed. In that > case, I think your /etc/XF86Config file would be preserved, although it > may now contain some incompatible syntax with XFree86 4.2. > If you're trying to install XFree86 4.x or above, another thing to check is that /etc/make.conf has: XFREE86_VERSION= 4 in it. According to the new make.conf in 4.6.2-RELEASE, FreeBSD defaults to version 4 now, but I think in the old make.conf, it defaulted to 3. Something else to check, anyway. Regards, Corey To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message