Unhappy Xorg upgrade

[Robert Noland]

On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 16:45 -0500, Stephen Clark wrote:
> 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.

<shameless plug>

portmanager -u -p -l -y

worked beautifully to upgrade gnome and X.  I did pkg_delete -f gtkmm
for gnome, but otherwise...

</shameless plug>

Actually, I didn't have anything to do with writing it, I just keep it
working since it DTRT...

robert.

> 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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