From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 11 14:11: 0 2003 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 0659637B401 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 14:10:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from lilbuddy.antsclimbtree.com (lilbuddy.antsclimbtree.com [216.27.183.129]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 647DD43F93 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 14:10:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark@antsclimbtree.com) Received: from adsl-66-122-112-170.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net ([66.122.112.170] helo=dina) by lilbuddy.antsclimbtree.com with asmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.12) id 18iicG-0007CA-00; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 14:11:00 -0800 Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 14:10:56 -0800 Subject: Re: Gnome 2 on FreeBSD 4.7p3 -- multiple issues Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v482) Cc: questions@freebsd.org To: Joe Marcus Clarke From: Mark Edwards In-Reply-To: <1045000672.305.71.camel@gyros> Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.482) 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 Tuesday, February 11, 2003, at 01:57 PM, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > You may have accidentally overwritten X. However, it could also be that > this file is very ancient, and doesn't properly reflect what's going on > now. If you've found you've messed up X, you should remove all XFree86 > packages, then reinstall the XFree86-4 meta-port. > > Joe I'm beginning to suspect my XFree86 install is toast. My man pages say 3.3.6. I think I had 3.3.6 installed from the original FreeBSD 4.3 or something like that, and somehow didn't fully remove it. When I do cd /usr/ports/x11/XFree86 sudo make deinstall it says the port isn't installed. However, I don't have XFree86-4 installed either, and my XFree86 man pages say 3.3.6, so clearly 3.3.6 didn't get deinstalled and is still half-working. Is there a way to say, "deinstall the files that would be installed if this port was installed?" Or, would it be best to install /usr/ports/x11/XFree86, and then deinstall it? I'm pretty sure if I can get 3.3.6 totally gone, and then install /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4, I'm going to be set. Sorry to be bringing such a fubar'd system to you! -- Mark Edwards Engineer Mr. Toad's San Francisco, CA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message