Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 11:31:50 -0500 (CDT) From: Conrad Sabatier <conrads@home.com> To: stanb@panix.com Cc: (Free BSD Questions list) <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Help please, I've broken Gnome! Message-ID: <XFMail.20011014113150.conrads@home.com> In-Reply-To: <200110141434.f9EEYIa06461@panix1.panix.com>
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On 14-Oct-2001 stanb@panix.com wrote: > I decided to upgrade my machine this weekend, and now I have a problem. > No Gnome related programs will runn. gdm, and gnom-session both crash > with mssing libraries. > > here is what I did: > > 1. CVSUP to latest STABLE > 2. CVSUP latest ports. > 3. wnet to the gnome meta port and tried to build it, no luck. What does this mean exactly, "no luck"? > 4. Supidly decided to try this using packagse :-( > 5, pkg_selet'd lost's of Gnome related packes. > 6. Downlaode _all_ packages in > ftp.freebsd.or://pub/FreeBSD/ports/packages/gnome > 7. di pkg_add many many times, fetching other dependinces as they poped > up. (why will pkg_add take a maximum of 20 items at a time? why were > these > dependinces not in ~/gnome?) > 8. Now nothig works :-( > > How can I get things working again? It sounds like your original problem was that your Gnome ports were out of sync with certain libraries. A better approach may have been to try upgrading/reinstalling the library dependencies (glib, gtk, etc.) Do you have portupgrade installed (/usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade)? If not, get it. Then either use portupgrade to upgrade your installed Gnome ports (possibly with the -f switch to force a reinstall) and/or portinstall for any missing ports. This has the advantage of checking dependencies more thoroughly and upgrading anything that's not in sync. Hope this helps. -- Conrad Sabatier <conrads@home.com> "The student in question is performing minimally for his peer group and is an emerging underachiever." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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