Problem updating to 7.2

Otho ppuubblliicc at gmail.com
Fri Jul 13 17:42:39 UTC 2007


Hello,
I was installing an app and it gave me errors about "/usr/X11R6 must be a
symlink".
So I went ahead and followed the instructions in /usr/ports/UPDATING
(20070519), but ran into more problems.

Mainly, when I try to run 'portupgrade -a', it gives me the very same
"/usr/X11R6 must be a symlink" error!
I need to have 7.2 installed in order to install 7.2, apparently?

I have not yet tried the development version of portupgrade - maybe that
will fix it?

This is the relevant error I'm getting during the run of 'portupgrade -a':

--->  Upgrading 'xorg-libraries-6.9.0' to 'xorg-libraries-7.2_2'
(x11/xorg-libraries)
--->  Building '/usr/ports/x11/xorg-libraries'
===>  Cleaning for xorg-libraries-7.2_2
/usr/X11R6 exists, but it is not a symlink. Installation cannot proceed.
This looks like an incompletely removed old version of X.  In the current
version, /usr/X11R6 must be a symlink if it exists at all.Please read
/usr/ports/UPDATING (entry of 20070519) for the procedure to upgrade
X.orgrelated ports.*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/x11/xorg-libraries.
** Command failed [exit code 1]: /usr/bin/script -qa
/tmp/portupgrade.48744.100 env UPGRADE_TOOL=portupgrade UPGRADE_PORT=
xorg-libraries-6.9.0 UPGRADE_PORT_VER=6.9.0 make
** Fix the problem and try again.



Thanks
-John


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