xorg fails to install

Dejan Lesjak dejan.lesjak at ijs.si
Fri Jun 22 12:13:43 UTC 2007


On Friday 22 of June 2007, Francois Vigneron wrote:
> Hello,
> I am updating xorg following your instructions with portupgrade.
>
> I had gstreamer so I used the -x 'gstreamer*' instructions ;
> at this stage, most ports where uptodate except for xorg-server
> that fails to install and some (non important) others (the ftp.gnu
> server seems to have some problems lately as downloads freeze).
>
> At this stage I decided that I had no actual interrest in gstreamer
> related (at least for now) so I decided to pkg_delete gstreamer
> (and the video ports that required it too).
>
> I tried to make install xorg-server again (all the other xorg related
> ports claim to be uptodate). But it failed. So I deinstalled it
> and then proceed to your next instruction which is to merge /usr/X11R6
> in /usr/local. I used the script without trouble.
>
> Now you ask to install the main x11/xorg package. So I make it; no
> problem. Then I make install and it fails with an error code 1.
> You can have a look at the script of this attempt at
> http://www.math.polytechnique.fr/~vigneron/pb.xorg
>
> A make install of x11-server/xorg-server (which I am interested too)
> seems to fail at the same point.

Try removing file /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/extensions (I assume it is a 
file instead of directory) and try again.

Dejan


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