Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:03:12 +0600 From: keneasson <keneasson@zoho.com> To: rnoland@FreeBSD.org Cc: sclark46@earthlink.net, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, danallen46@airwired.net, alex-goncharov@comcast.net, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, bms@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unhappy Xorg upgrade Message-ID: <11f26fdf8f4.-2157351033577064444.414601923260268209@zoho.com> In-Reply-To: <1233266289.66977.11.camel@squirrel.corp.cox.com> References: <6B7ABE80-35AB-4C44-B5A4-200E10DCC3AC@airwired.net> <E1LSP0B-0003Ds-H8@daland.home> <49819BD5.5040709@FreeBSD.org> <E1LSWHr-0009TS-P7@daland.home> <1233236412.1779.40.camel@wombat.2hip.net> <E1LSXPn-000ABB-4L@daland.home> <01CB956E-94C0-4819-8362-D24347405C67@airwired.net> <49822379.3010203@earthlink.net> <1233266289.66977.11.camel@squirrel.corp.cox.com>
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I have to agree with you that this latest update was most problematic for m= e. I keep my system very up-to-date, usually every 3-5 days. FreeBSD 7.1 RE= LENG (Which is stable at the moment) on Toshiba X200-AX1 Two major problems both noted in UPDATING but still cause of a huge number = of problems were my xorg conf file settings (had to make several changes to= x11 config to get X to start and mouse to move besides the ones noted in U= PDATNG), my start is still riddled with errors. One problem is that i'm usi= ng amd64 but have an nVidia card. My laptop has dual cards for driving the = single screen, and this no longer works - now card(0) is driving both sides= of the screen, and card(1) is unloaded. There are a number of other proble= ms related to video that i'm not very worried about, i only have an interes= t in one game - and i play it about once every 6 months at most. (flightgea= r) bigger problem with libxcb,=20 first - i don't have portsupdate installed, only portmaster.=20 now - the fist confession is that i had no idea what libxcb is, or why i mi= ght need it, so i just ignored that bit of UPDATING. After portmaster -a fa= iled with a reference to libxcb and i rebuilt 5 or 6 ports manually to get = past that, then rescanned UPDATING for libscb, i tried: portmaster -rf libxcb that ran overnight, and didn't do a single scrap of good. finally - i installed and ran=20 libchk -V /list of folders/ (most problems identified in /usr/local ) recommend piping that into a log so you can search throught it for libxcb d= ependent ports - my output is huge, and i had to keep pausing and writing d= own ports as fast as my little fingers could move. on a lof of folders, to discover that a whole list of programs were all lin= ked to libxcb.so.1 including metacity, nautilus, cups, policykit, etc. that= didn't get updated by -rf libxcb, i started with metacity; portmaster metacity=20 portmaster cups* portmaster policykit etc... and worked throgh the list of about 25 ports. startx finally works but i still had no windows manager (metacity) which i = had to rebuild again to make it finally work. Now i have a working system, = but there is still no Gnome-splash-screen. so far everything else is workin= g, but it's taken me a good 24 hours to make my X system usable. ken. ---- On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org> wrote ----=20 > On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 16:45 -0500, Stephen Clark wrote:=20 > > Dan Allen wrote:=20 > > > Thanks to Robert for pointing out a few things to me.=20 > > > =20 > > > I have run=20 > > > =20 > > > portupgrade -rf libxcb=20 > > > =20 > > =20 > > I normally run portupgrade -WrRpPa=20 > > This is what I ran and it totally hosed my system.=20 > > I had to revert back to an earlier version to be able to=20 > > bring X back up.=20 > =20 > <shameless plug>=20 > =20 > portmanager -u -p -l -y=20 > =20 > worked beautifully to upgrade gnome and X. I did pkg_delete -f gtkmm=20 > for gnome, but otherwise...=20 > =20 > </shameless plug>=20 > =20 > Actually, I didn't have anything to do with writing it, I just keep it= =20 > working since it DTRT...=20 > =20 > robert.=20 > =20 > > This should have compiled and built everything that was affected=20 > > by the new X stuff - but it obviously didn't.=20 > > =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 > > > =20 > > > After rebuilding firefox and a bunch of smaller libraries, my keyboa= rd =20 > > > and mouse work, and so does firefox and my other apps.=20 > > > =20 > > > Thanks to everyone else for emailing me with ideas and suggestions!= =20 > > > =20 > > > Dan=20 > > > =20 > > > =20 > > > _______________________________________________=20 > > > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list=20 > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable=20 > > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd= .org"=20 > > > =20 > > =20 > >
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