gnome_upgrade.sh failed in Stage 2 (external GNOME dependencies)

[Ewald Jenisch]

Hi,

Just tried to upgrade gnome 2.4 -> 2.6 on a system running FreeBSD 4.9
(the system is 4.9 cvsup-ed, built and installed "world" and "kernel"
as of today with "uname" now giving "4.10-Beta")

In order to upgrade Gnome from 2.4->2.6 after cvsup-ing the ports I
used "gnome_upgrade.sh" as per the upgrade-instructions.

However the script died during stage 2 of 5 with the following error:

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>>>>> STAGE 2 of 5: Updating any out-of-date GNOME dependencies.
FAILED.
===> /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade failed to run for the external GNOME
dependencies.  Please make sure that popt gettext* libiconv expat pkgconfig
freetype2 XFree86-libraries* Xft XFree86-fontScalable* XFree86-fontEncodings*
png libaudiofile tiff jpeg libxml2 python libxslt gnomehier scrollkeeper
intltool p5-XML-Parser docbook-sk xmlcatmgr docbook-xsl docbook-xml
sdocbook-xml startup-notification gnome-icon-theme Hermes sox libmpeg2 guile
libltdl aspell gle cdrtools mkisofs bitstream-vera openldap-client lcms libmng
libtool ghostscript* libgnugetopt are up-to-date, then re-run this script.
The output of the failed portupgrade can be found in
/var/tmp/gnome_upgrade_log.D7UqAE.  If you require additional help, please
compress /var/tmp/gnome_upgrade_log.D7UqAE, and send it to
freebsd-gnome at FreeBSD.org.

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So what should I do?

Run "portupgrade -ar" in order to completely upgrade the system? (This
however is explicitly discouraged as per /usr/ports/UPDATING...)

Please note that I've upgraded another 4.9 system a couple of days ago
with the gnome upgrade running absolutely smooth.

As indicated in the error message above I'm attaching the compressed
(.gz) logfile.

Thanks much in advance for any clue,
-ewald