Unhappy Xorg upgrade
Stephen Clark
sclark46 at earthlink.net
Thu Jan 29 13:45:34 PST 2009
Dan Allen wrote:
> Thanks to Robert for pointing out a few things to me.
>
> I have run
>
> portupgrade -rf libxcb
>
I normally run portupgrade -WrRpPa
This is what I ran and it totally hosed my system.
I had to revert back to an earlier version to be able to
bring X back up.
This should have compiled and built everything that was affected
by the new X stuff - but it obviously didn't.
> and it rebuilt quite a few pieces that had not been rebuilt in the
> standard portupgrade that gave me X.org 7.4 in the first place.
>
> After rebuilding firefox and a bunch of smaller libraries, my keyboard
> and mouse work, and so does firefox and my other apps.
>
> Thanks to everyone else for emailing me with ideas and suggestions!
>
> Dan
>
>
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