xfce4 broke after pkgdb -Ff

[KAYVEN RIESE]

so the "-r" option will be the significant difference for the portupgrade
comamnd, just verifying

On Thu, 17 May 2007, Lowell Gilbert wrote:

> KAYVEN  RIESE <kayve at sfsu.edu> writes:
>
>> i did the command pkgdb -Ff and it broke my X (xfce4)  the desktop
>> had been able to come up, but the cursor was the "X" that it has
>> while it is booting.. i was able to start a terminal, but not a mozilla
>> browser.  i had been able to use the terminal, but i could not move it
>> around the desktop.
>>
>> 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".
>
> This question would probably have been most appropriate for the
> freebsd-ports mailing list.
>
> Be well.
>