Unhappy Xorg upgrade

[Stephen Clark]

Dan Allen wrote:
> Thanks to Robert for pointing out a few things to me.
> 
> I have run
> 
>     portupgrade -rf libxcb
> 

I normally run portupgrade -WrRpPa
This is what I ran and it totally hosed my system.
I had to revert back to an earlier version to be able to
bring X back up.

This should have compiled and built everything that was affected
by the new X stuff - but it obviously didn't.

> and it rebuilt quite a few pieces that had not been rebuilt in the 
> standard portupgrade that gave me X.org 7.4 in the first place.
> 
> After rebuilding firefox and a bunch of smaller libraries, my keyboard 
> and mouse work, and so does firefox and my other apps.
> 
> Thanks to everyone else for emailing me with ideas and suggestions!
> 
> Dan
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