CRITICAL Warning When Closing Gnome2

Kevin Kinsey kdk at daleco.biz
Tue Oct 11 11:51:53 PDT 2005


Lawrence Petrykanyn wrote:

> Hi!
>
>    I am a newbie running 5.4 on an AMD Sempron with a dual boot
> (Win98SE) in a home environment.  I am networked with two other
> Window boxes to share a high-speed DSL.  My machine has been
> running smoothly for a few months now.
>
>    I have two issues that I would gratefully appreciate some insight
> into and I think that they may be related.  First, I get error messages
> when I shut down Gnome2.  Second, portupgrade skips the upgrade
> for Gnome2 (I think because Mozilla fails).


IANAE, but IIRC you can't use portupgrade to upgrade Gnome2.

Take a look at www.freebsd.org/gnome for directions and a specially
crafted upgrade script that is supposed to do the trick for you.

HTH,

Kevin Kinsey


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