Portupgrade Problem w/New Gnome2 Release

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at marcuscom.com
Sun Sep 21 12:18:19 PDT 2003


On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 15:11, Bob Perry wrote:
> Hello,
> Yesterday, I ran the portupgrade utitlity, portupgrade -arR, without paying
> enough attention to the ports that were designated as "in need of upgrade".
> 
> When the process ended, I found that only 19 of 49 files had been upgraded.
> I also found out much later that many of the ports effected were ports
> involved in the new release (news to me) of GNOME2.  It was suggested that I
> review documentation on the GNOME2 release from the website, IRC, mailing
> lists, etc. and go from there.
> 
> This morning, however, I was unable to access my desktop.  After typing
> startx, two dialogue boxes appeared.  The first one read, "There was a
> problem registering the panel with the bonobo-activation server.  The error
> code is 3.  The panel will now exit."
> 
> The second read, "Nautilus can't be used now due to an unexpected error."
> Clicking "OK" failed to make either disappear.
> 
> I'm preparing this note from my NT4.0 box.  Any suggestions as to how I can
> get my desktop back in operation?

Read the FAQ at http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html.

Joe

> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Bob Perry
> 
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