xfce4 broke after pkgdb -Ff

[Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez]

On Thu, 17 May 2007 08:51:13 -0400
Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-stable-local at be-well.ilk.org> wrote:

> > pkgdb -Ff had had a pango problem, so i did a portupgrade -f pango.
> >
> > now i can't even get a terminal in my xfce4
> 
> I think you missed some of the instructions in /usr/ports/UPDATING.
> I'm also a bit confused on exactly what you did, because pkgdb doesn't
> make any changes to the programs you can run.  At this point, you need
> to start by making sure that programs that use pango are updated to
> use the new one.  Something like "portupgrade -fr pango".

And don't forget the big warning about gettext upgrade to 0.16, which may
break things which depend on gettext (which is a lot of things, including
Xfce).

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Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez                   rnsanchez at wait4.org
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