[Call for Testing] X.org 7.5 for FreeBSD
Gary Jennejohn
gary.jennejohn at freenet.de
Sun Mar 21 13:32:23 UTC 2010
On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:27:27 +0100
Torfinn Ingolfsen <tingox at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Gary Jennejohn
> <gary.jennejohn at freenet.de>wrote:
>
> >
> > Interesting solution.
> >
> > Just for kicks I installed xfce4-session and ran it. It doesn't require
> > the rest of xfce4 to run.
> >
> > Unfortunately, it worked for me without any error. It even started the
> > sessions I had saved from the time when I was using xfce4.
> >
> > Have you tried deleteing .xfce4, Torfinn?
> >
> >
> Yep, tried that too. For the user 'root' there wasn't a ~/.config/xfce4
> directory before I started testing.
>
>
> > Another point which I should mention is that I did a completely clean
> > install of all my ports when I updated to Xorg 7.5. This guarantees that
> > there isn't any random junk left around.
> >
>
> I did portupgrade all ports, and have checked the dates in /var/db/pkg - all
> ports are updated after the installation of Xorg 7.5
>
Well, I completely nuked /usr/local and /var/db/pkg before doing the
installation. I may be paranoid, but I don't trust the various ports
management tools to do a good job on complex updates. Just old
fashioned, I guess.
I'm out of ideas.
--
Gary Jennejohn
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