Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 08:54:21 -0700 From: Tom Russo <russo@bogodyn.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Botched X.org upgrade, need help Message-ID: <20071112155421.GA66742@bogodyn.org> In-Reply-To: <20071109032615.E926016A480@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20071109032615.E926016A480@hub.freebsd.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 03:26:15AM +0000, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org> flavor, containing: > On Thursday 08 November 2007, Andrew Falanga said: > > On Nov 8, 2007 12:37 PM, Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote: > > > On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, Andrew Falanga wrote: > > > > Well, at last I think it's botched. I really was following the > > > directions [...] > > (WW) Warning, couldn't open module pcidata > > (II) UnloadModule: "pcidata" > > (EE) Failed to load module "pcidata" (module does not exist, 0) > > > > Fatal server error: > > Unable to load required base modules, Exiting... > I had a very similar experience, with the X server reporting missing modules immediately after I thought I'd followed the upgrade instructions to the letter (including the portupgrade -a, migrating all the /usr/X11R6 stuff with mergebase, and various nvidia-driver caveats). Turns out that in my case the xorg-drivers and xorg-fonts ports had not been added by the upgrade process, probably because I had a missing metaport in my previous install. That was the one block of caveats I apparently missed. In the end, I was able to just do a make install of the xorg metaport and it picked up the missing two, then I was back in business. Perhaps that's what's going on with you? Or perhaps not --- I see you also mentioned you hadn't updated ModulePath, and perhaps that was the only reason you are having problems? I didn't see a follow-up saying that was it. -- Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236 AHTB#1 http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM "And, isn't sanity really just a one-trick pony anyway? I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking, but when you're good and crazy, oooh, oooh, oooh, the sky is the limit!" --- The Tick
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20071112155421.GA66742>