On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, Warren Block wrote:
On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, d...@safeport.com wrote:
I messed up a KDE 3.5.10 trying to install firefox3 so I thought I would
attempt to upgrade using portupgrade and/or portmaster. After a lot of work
I think I am back to if you use KDE the only way to upgrade is to start
afresh.
At this point I thought I would try Xorg 7.4. I did a "pkg_delete -a" and
"pkg_add -r xorg". This was a complete disaster.
How, specifically?
The keyboard was locked only the power key worked. As in my earlier response I
tried as many variation of the option as indicated by the handbook and my
imagination. It is probably true that xorg worked albeit without the keyboard.
Neither startx or xdm acted differently. E.g, I got a black screen and a locked
system.
After trying all the configuration options, tips etc in the handbook,
google et all, I decided my 3+ year old thinkpad was just not supported so
I composed a "can anyone help me" email to questions. This went off into
the ether through user error.
While I was waiting for help I thought I would try installing Xorg from an
iso image. The resulting install worked out of the box using the last
variation of xorf.conf I had tried. I am left to assume that what I got
from pkg_add does not fit together.
The symptoms described in your earlier mail sound like it worked but was
different from what you expected.
I do not think so because after installing from the iso, startx and xdm worked
with the last version of my xorg.conf file.
Obviously my earlier attempts to get an xorg.conf file worked fine. The
code did not. As a thought to the Xorg, I do not think the unbundling makes
things more stable. Xfree86 was bad enough (so I thought) with its couple
of dozen (or so) components. Starting from scratch I now have 204 ports and
two versions of python just to run twm. Given that some number of the 204
component are under active development using pkg_add seems out of the
question. The second version of python came in because I could not find xdm
in the 7.2-release disk1 iso so I did a pkg_add on xdm.
This sounds like you are mixing old and new packages. portupgrade (and
probably also portmaster) can use packages for you.
Maybe. But if I start with a system with no ports and do a pkg_add, I do not see
how I am mixing old and new. This was certainly true before I deleted everything
but I was trying only to upgrade firefox2 --> firefox3 on xorg 7.3 using
portmaster and then portupgrade. When that did not work (and I have no issues
with that) I delete all ports and started with xorg 7.4. I see no other
conclusion other than one (or more) of the 204 ports installed by pkg_add was
too old (or new).
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Douglas Denault
http://www.safeport.com
d...@safeport.com
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