From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 16 22:03:14 2006 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 E16C416A407 for ; Sat, 16 Sep 2006 22:03:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@sage.thought.org) Received: from sage.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4A2543D53 for ; Sat, 16 Sep 2006 22:03:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kline@sage.thought.org) Received: from sage.thought.org (kline@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sage.thought.org (8.13.6/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k8GM34iS024365; Sat, 16 Sep 2006 15:03:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@sage.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by sage.thought.org (8.13.6/8.13.1/Submit) id k8GM33eA024364; Sat, 16 Sep 2006 15:03:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 15:03:01 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Matthew Seaman Message-ID: <20060916220301.GC24069@thought.org> References: <20060916204650.GA23985@thought.org> <450C6E2E.8090909@infracaninophile.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <450C6E2E.8090909@infracaninophile.co.uk> X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing twenty years of service to the Unix community User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Cc: Gary Kline , FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: Is 6.1-RELEASE missing parts of X11? 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: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 22:03:14 -0000 On Sat, Sep 16, 2006 at 10:35:42PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > Gary Kline wrote: > > People, > > > > I've done at least two cmplete make buildworlds (and all the > > rest: kernel/installworld/) and parts of mergemaster. I *am* > > missing /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm and more files in /usr/X11R6/lib/[*]. > > startx is also missing. > > > > I have read the UPDATING and README in /usr/src; Am I missing > > some knob[s]? I have "gdm_enable=YES" in /etc/rc.conf just > > now and have the exec gnome line in ~/.xinitrc. [~/.xinitrc > > is 0755 and chown'd kline:wheel] and so on. > > > > I do see ctwm installed as a backup, but without at least > > xdm, I'm wedged. Anybody know what's going on? > > > > thanks in adance, > > > > gary > > > > PS:: When I scp'd xdm from 5.5, it did exec, but the xlogin > > widget was White and logging in as anyone failed. I > > was always thrown back to the default white xlogin screen. > > I think the howls of protest would have been audible from the moons of > Jupiter had 6.1-RELEASE shipped without a complete set of workable X > windows ports / packages. No, you are definitely experiencing a problem > with your own machine and not with the FreeBSD release. > > However important such software may be, it is not actually a part of > the base system. portupgrade(1) is your friend in this case, not 'make > buildworld'. If you are updating from 5.x to 6.x then you should be > sure to reinstall all your ports / packages. A command line of the > form: > > portupgrade -Niaf > > will get that job done. There are various alternative options you > might want to consider employing, such as telling portupgrade to use > packages rather than re-compiling everything from source: the man page > for portupgrade will elucidate. You need to do this not because 5.x > programs won't work on a 6.x system (they manifestly will run if the > compat5x shlibs are installed) but because any future software update > runs the risk of different parts of the same program being linked against > different versions of a shared library and consequently failing to work. Thanks for several clues! When I chose the packages from /stand/sysinstall maybbe [[ evidently?!]] I only selected "base". I've rebuilt several hundred ports from src. (Some packages were marked "missing" when I tried to install [gnome|kde]-lite so have to hand-built:) ... But this was with 6.1-STABLE rather than -RELEASE.) take care, gary PS: This is obv'ly a local fault; if there were a better OS I would be using it. > > Cheers, > > Matthew > > -- > Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard > Flat 3 > PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate > Kent, CT11 9PW > -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix