Gnome starting problem

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Mon, 3 May 2004 14:32:00 +0800 (CST), Stephen Liu <satimis at yahoo.com> 
wrote:

> Hi Joe,
>
>  --- Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at marcuscom.com> wrote: >
> On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 23:13, Stephen Liu wrote:
>
>> > # cd /usr/ports/devel/ORBit2
>> > make install clean
>> >
>> > Rebooted PC
>> >
>> > $ pkg_info | grep -i orbit2
>> > ORBit2-2.8.2        High-performance CORBA ORB
>> with
>> > support for the C language
>> >
>> > $ gnome-session
>> > /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Share object
>> > "libORBit-2.so.0" not found
>> >
>> > Problem still there.
>>
>> http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq26.html
>>
>> Follow every step to the letter.
>
> I was running Gnome 2.4 which was working normally
> before. I mis-applied "make deinstall' to remove
> 'automake-1.5,1'. After starting I saw it started to
> remove files which were needed I closed the Konsole
> Window. Since then I have not run Gnome and don't know
> wheher it is still working.
>
> About yesterday I ran
> # pkg_delete -r automake-1.5,1
>
> then
> # cd /usr/ports/devel/automake17
> # make install clean
> to install automake-1.7.5_1
>
> Then I started Gnome and found it could not work.
>
> I hesitate to run portsupgrade to upgrade Gnome to 2.6
> because I am running a slow PC. Any other solution.

Install automake-1.5,1 back in. You can use packages instead if your PC is 
too slow.

Cheers,
Mezz

> TIA
>
> B.R.
> Stephen


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