[Bug 193692] cairo 1.12 crashes xorg server on 8.x (NOT WITH_NEW_XORG)

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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=193692

--- Comment #4 from peterc at luddite.com.au ---
(In reply to John Hein from comment #3)

My point was that WITH_NEW_XORG lives in the land of the xorg developers
and maintainers, not the other 99.99% of users.

The 9.x release notes give NO hints as to this issue and so the expectation
of pkg upgrade NOT screwing an installation needs to be maintained.

The simple (if temp fix) was to replace cairo.
NB I said replace, the concept of a rollback doesn't exist with pkg.

I'm running a vanilla 9 upgraded to 9.3 with freebsd-update and pkg upgrade.
  FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE-p2
  CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8500  @ 3.16GHz
  agp0: <Intel G45 SVGA controller> on vgapci0
  X.Org X Server 1.7.7
as delivered by the "update" tools.

The reference to WITH_NEW_XORG
  Date:      Fri, 04 Jul 2014 22:39:01 +0200
  From:      Koop Mast <kwm at rainbow-runner.nl>
  To:        freebsd-announce at FreeBSD.org
  Subject:   [FreeBSD-Announce] temporary WITH_NEW_XORG repositories available
is an orphan with little info and doesn't even point to
  https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics/WITH_NEW_XORG

<flame>
This disregard for the consequences of changes to basic sub-systems
is doing irreparable harm to FBSD esp. on the desktop.
The recent snafus with the package repository, sysinstall and the gung-ho
introduction of pkg, have driven away many long time users.
If use on the desktop becomes messy, a whole new generation of users will
go elsewhere.
Even I, a VERY long term user in the server space, am beginning to wonder
why I continue to bother.
</flame>

pjc

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