Fwd: X-windows for freeBSD 6.0

[Kris Kennaway]

On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 02:25:08PM -0700, Nsubuga Ronald wrote:
> Hi, i have freeBSD 6.0 installed and when i built my kernel ater
> putting down the ports upgrade  it produced the 6.1 PRE-RELEASE. for
> the first few days i was able to use the xwindow but when i try now it
> kicks me out.
> 
> i have googled but failed to fix this. this is what it generated when
> i try to startx.

> /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libexpat.so.5" not found,
> required by "xclock"
> /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object
> "libexpat.so.5" not found, required by "libfontconfig.so.1"
> /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libexpat.so.5" not found,
> required by "libfontconfig.so.1"
> Shared object "libexpat.so.5" not found, required by "libfontconfig.so.1"

You upgraded your expat port without also upgrading everything that
depended on it, so they broke.  Try portupgrade -a.

> i wanted to instal the x11Free86-4. but it also failed.

See /usr/ports/UPDATING; you need to set the X_WINDOW_SYSTEM variable
if you want to use a non-default X implementation.  However, X wasn't
the problem here anyway.

Kris
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