Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 10:28:43 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: pippo@bellnet.ca, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: portupgrade mess Message-ID: <200303131028.43307.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20030313110908.00b5fb68@mail.host45.com> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20030313110908.00b5fb68@mail.host45.com>
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On Thursday 13 March 2003 08:15 am, pippo@bellnet.ca wrote: > I just upgrade XFree86 from 4.2 to 4.3 using portupgrade on 2 > different machines. On one portupgrade seems to have worked ok, > except that XFree86 does not function quite correctly - I shall > assume it is an XFree86 problem. > > The second machine is totally screwed up - even though the upgrade > did not work, the previous installation is now shot. Startx does not > bring up kde3. I really don't know what to do - should I deinstall > XFree86 or what? portversion does not work since dependencies are no > longer valid. I have never fully understood how the dependencies > function in portsdb -F. I don't know how this can be correctly fixed? > I don't understand why the upgrade did not work. > Does anyone understand any of this? > Thanks for any suggestions... I just hit the same thing. It doesn't like the names of my video cards. It is more specific now and I ended up running xf86cfg again. Everything works fine now. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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