Unhappy Xorg upgrade

[keneasson]

I have to agree with you that this latest update was most problematic for me. I keep my system very up-to-date, usually every 3-5 days. FreeBSD 7.1 RELENG (Which is stable at the moment) on Toshiba X200-AX1

Two major problems both noted in UPDATING but still cause of a huge number of problems were my xorg conf file settings (had to make several changes to x11 config to get X to start and mouse to move besides the ones noted in UPDATNG), my start is still riddled with errors. One problem is that i'm using amd64 but have an nVidia card. My laptop has dual cards for driving the single screen, and this no longer works - now card(0) is driving both sides of the screen, and card(1) is unloaded. There are a number of other problems related to video that i'm not very worried about, i only have an interest in one game - and i play it about once every 6 months at most. (flightgear)

bigger problem with libxcb, 
first - i don't have portsupdate installed, only portmaster. 
now - the fist confession is that i had no idea what libxcb is, or why i might need it, so i just ignored that bit of UPDATING. After portmaster -a failed with a reference to libxcb and i rebuilt 5 or 6 ports manually to get past that, then rescanned UPDATING for libscb, i tried:
portmaster -rf libxcb
that ran overnight, and didn't do a single scrap of good.

finally - i installed and ran 
libchk -V /list of folders/ (most problems identified in /usr/local )
recommend piping that into a log so you can search throught it for libxcb dependent ports - my output is huge, and i had to keep pausing and writing down ports as fast as my little fingers could move.
on a lof of folders, to discover that a whole list of programs were all linked to libxcb.so.1 including metacity, nautilus, cups, policykit, etc. that didn't get updated by -rf libxcb, i started with metacity;
portmaster metacity 
portmaster cups*
portmaster policykit
etc...
and worked throgh the list of about 25 ports.

startx finally works but i still had no windows manager (metacity) which i had to rebuild again to make it finally work. Now i have a working system, but there is still no Gnome-splash-screen. so far everything else is working, but it's taken me a good 24 hours to make my X system usable.

ken.


---- On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 Robert Noland <rnoland at FreeBSD.org> wrote ---- 

 > 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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