Lost XFree86-4

Kent Stewart kstewart at owt.com
Sat May 24 10:33:24 PDT 2003


On Saturday 24 May 2003 10:24 am, Bob Perry wrote:
> I just deinstalled XFree86 -4.X and built XFree86 3.X in error.  I
> deinstalled XFree86 3.x before setup and tried use the ports collection to
> install XFree86 4.3.0,1.  The process began indicating that XFree86-4.3.0,1
> depended on shared library : X11.6 which was "not found".  It began to
> configure XFree86-libraries-4.3.0_5 but was unable to locate two files:
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config/host.def, and
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config/xf86site.def.  Shortly afterward I received a
> series of "Error code 1" messages:
>
> Stop in /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4-libraries/work/xc.
> Stop in /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4-libraries/work
> Stop in /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4-libraries/
> Stop in /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4
>
> My  problems originated while I was unsuccessful at upgrading
> XFree86-FontServer and XFree86-client due to a missing font lXfont.  I was
> trying to remedy that situation when I fouled up here.
>

Opps, I forgot this one. You have to reinstall XFree86-libraries to get them 
back. This was a heads up on -ports.

Kent

> I'm running FreeBSD-RELEASE 4.7 and would appreciate some advice as to how
> I can cleanly get things back to normal.
>
> Thanks in advance and have a happy holiday.
>
> Bob
>
>
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