10.03 to -current software removal

Joshua Rogers megamansec at gmail.com
Mon Aug 22 19:04:09 UTC 2016


Sending again to the list since I misclicked and sent an email only to Alan:

Indeed I did, and many new programs got installed when I did it.
However, now:

~$ sudo pkg update && sudo pkg upgrade
Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
FreeBSD repository is up-to-date.
All repositories are up-to-date.
Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
FreeBSD repository is up-to-date.
All repositories are up-to-date.
Checking for upgrades (23 candidates): 100%
Processing candidates (23 candidates): 100%
Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting)
Your packages are up to date.

Thanks,



On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 4:59 AM, Alan Somers <asomers at freebsd.org> wrote:

> Sounds like you have ports that are linked against the old base
> system.  Did you do a "pkg upgrade" after the installworld?
>
> On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 12:55 PM, Joshua Rogers <megamansec at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi everybody,
> >
> > I've come across a problem when upgrading from 10.03 to -current, which
> > I needed to do since my graphics driver isn't supported in 10.03, after
> > upgrading.
> >
> > When I built the world and kernel, and did `make installkernel',
> > everything was perfect; I rebooted, and xorg ran, my wm was perfect,
> > software worked, and I could even change the backlight of my screen
> > using redshift.
> >
> > However, when I went to the next step, `make installworld', and `yes |
> > make delete-old ; yes | make delete-old-libs', and I rebooted, xorg had
> > been uninstalled, along with many other things such as firefox, etc. It
> > was an easy fix to just reinstall them, however.
> >
> > The problem is, after booting and starting xorg and everything, I've
> > come across a few errors when running software:
> >
> > libreoffice and transmission-gtk no longer run(and probably other
> software):
> > /usr/local/lib/libreoffice/program/oosplash: Undefined symbol "dirname"
> > /usr/local/bin/transmission-gtk: Undefined symbol "dirname"
> > and redshift no longer can change the backlight color at all(manually
> > using xgamma doesn't work, either.)
> >
> > vlc is also very laggy when fullscreen.
> >
> > I suspect a library has been uninstalled or something along those lines
> > when I ran the last step as mentioned.
> >
> > Does anybody know the best course of action to either: work out which
> > software was uninstalled so I can reinstall it, or to debug the specific
> > issues I'm having?
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Josh
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