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Date:      Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:58:09 -0500
From:      Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org>
To:        sclark46@earthlink.net
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Dan Allen <danallen46@airwired.net>, bms@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Alex Goncharov <alex-goncharov@comcast.net>
Subject:   Re: Unhappy Xorg upgrade
Message-ID:  <1233266289.66977.11.camel@squirrel.corp.cox.com>
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On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 16:45 -0500, Stephen Clark wrote:
> Dan Allen wrote:
> > Thanks to Robert for pointing out a few things to me.
> >=20
> > I have run
> >=20
> >     portupgrade -rf libxcb
> >=20
>=20
> I normally run portupgrade -WrRpPa
> This is what I ran and it totally hosed my system.
> I had to revert back to an earlier version to be able to
> bring X back up.

<shameless plug>

portmanager -u -p -l -y

worked beautifully to upgrade gnome and X.  I did pkg_delete -f gtkmm
for gnome, but otherwise...

</shameless plug>

Actually, I didn't have anything to do with writing it, I just keep it
working since it DTRT...

robert.

> This should have compiled and built everything that was affected
> by the new X stuff - but it obviously didn't.
>=20
> > and it rebuilt quite a few pieces that had not been rebuilt in the=20
> > standard portupgrade that gave me X.org 7.4 in the first place.
> >=20
> > After rebuilding firefox and a bunch of smaller libraries, my keyboard=20
> > and mouse work, and so does firefox and my other apps.
> >=20
> > Thanks to everyone else for emailing me with ideas and suggestions!
> >=20
> > Dan
> > =20
> > =20
> > _______________________________________________
> > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list
> > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable
> > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.or=
g"
> >=20
>=20
>=20

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