New xorg fails with "module ABI major version (6) doesn't match the server's version (12)"
William A. Mahaffey III
wam at hiwaay.net
Sat Sep 13 20:22:27 UTC 2014
I just had a recurrence of this exact problem after a 'pkg upgrade -y'
(which worked AOK since I didn't do any messing w/ ports before :-/ ). I
used the portmaster command & also had the same net result (drivers
reinstalled by pkg_static, rather than pkg, although they were compiled
up locally) .... My question is: Is there a way to get pkg to do this,
rather than ports/portmaster ? I prefer all 1 package manager as much as
possible, & for me that is pkg, except where necessary to fall back on
ports (flash plugin, for example). TIA ....
On 08/15/14 10:30, Mike Clarke wrote:
> On Thursday 14 August 2014 10:54:43 Jamie Griffin wrote:
>
>> This is simple to fix - run 'portmaster xf86-' and it will rebuild
>> the drivers beginning with xf86- and will then match the servers
>> version.
>>
>> For some reason when building the ports for new xorg the drivers
>> built and installed are for an older version of xorg server as
>> you've seen when checking pkg info.
> Thanks, that fixed it.
>
> The odd thing is that neither pkg version nor portmaster gave any
> indication that the drivers were out of date. All the packages for
> xorg were installed in a single run of pkg install so I wouldd have
> expected the new repository to have supplied all the relevant drivers.
>
> Portmaster just re-installed the drivers rather than upgrading them.
>
> ##################################
> curlew:/root# portmaster xf86-input-mouse xf86-video-vesa xf86-video-
> nv xf86-input-keyboard
>
> ===>>> Working on:
> xf86-input-mouse-1.9.0_3
> xf86-video-vesa-2.3.3_3
> xf86-video-nv-2.1.20_4
> xf86-input-keyboard-1.8.0_2
>
> [snip]
>
> ===>>> The following actions were performed:
> Installation of devel/pkgconf (pkgconf-0.9.6_1)
> Installation of devel/xorg-macros (xorg-macros-1.19.0)
> Installation of x11/glproto (glproto-1.4.17)
> Installation of x11/resourceproto (resourceproto-1.2.0)
> Installation of x11/xf86driproto (xf86driproto-2.1.1)
> Re-installation of xf86-input-mouse-1.9.0_3
> Re-installation of xf86-video-vesa-2.3.3_3
> Re-installation of xf86-video-nv-2.1.20_4
> Re-installation of xf86-input-keyboard-1.8.0_2
> ##################################
>
> But I still don't understand why pkg install failed to get the drivers
> from the FreeBSD_new_xorg repository which does appear to have them.
>
> ##################################
> curlew:/root# pkg rquery -r FreeBSD_new_xorg "%n %v" xf86-input-mouse\
> ? xf86-video-vesa xf86-video-nv xf86-input-keyboard
> xf86-input-mouse 1.9.0_3
> xf86-video-vesa 2.3.3_3
> xf86-video-nv 2.1.20_4
> xf86-input-keyboard 1.8.0_2
>
> ##################################
>
> In fact if I use "pkg install -r FreeBSD_new_xorg xf86-video-vesa" I
> do get it from FreeBSD_new_xorg and X works fine with it. But without
> the -r option it defaults to giving me the version from the FreeBSD
> repository.
>
> And Sod's law appears to apply here - pkg install did get the ati and
> intel video drivers from FreeBSD_new_xorg. Wrong versions of these
> Would not have affected me.
>
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William A. Mahaffey III
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