X-windows for freeBSD 6.0

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Tue Feb 21 13:49:13 PST 2006


On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 02:46:53PM -0700, Nsubuga Ronald wrote:
> hi thankx very much but it didn't bail me out still.
> 
> produ8cing the same error.

What ports were upgraded by portupgrade?

Kris

> 
> On 2/21/06, Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 02:25:08PM -0700, Nsubuga Ronald wrote:
> > > Hi, i have freeBSD 6.0 installed and when i built my kernel ater
> > > putting down the ports upgrade  it produced the 6.1 PRE-RELEASE. for
> > > the first few days i was able to use the xwindow but when i try now it
> > > kicks me out.
> > >
> > > i have googled but failed to fix this. this is what it generated when
> > > i try to startx.
> >
> > > /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libexpat.so.5" not found,
> > > required by "xclock"
> > > /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object
> > > "libexpat.so.5" not found, required by "libfontconfig.so.1"
> > > /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libexpat.so.5" not found,
> > > required by "libfontconfig.so.1"
> > > Shared object "libexpat.so.5" not found, required by "libfontconfig.so.1"
> >
> > You upgraded your expat port without also upgrading everything that
> > depended on it, so they broke.  Try portupgrade -a.
> >
> > > i wanted to instal the x11Free86-4. but it also failed.
> >
> > See /usr/ports/UPDATING; you need to set the X_WINDOW_SYSTEM variable
> > if you want to use a non-default X implementation.  However, X wasn't
> > the problem here anyway.
> >
> > Kris
> >
> >
> 
> 
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