Startx Missing Following Portupgrade

Robert H. Perry rperry at gti.net
Sat Nov 19 19:44:52 GMT 2005


Robert H. Perry wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm running FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE #0 on two machines and just CVSup'd my 
> systems last night finishing with portupgrade this morning.  I ran into 
> a problem with machine #1.  I ran portupgrade and stumbled with the 
> xterm and x11-fonts/linux-fontconfig upgrades.  I tried to run startx to 
> google the problems but got: command not found.
> 
> Reinstalling linux-base seemed to resolve the x11-fonts problem.  I then 
>   deinstalled, and reinstalled xorg-clients to upgrade it and ran 
> portupgrade -aRr.  No more apparent problems.  However, still unable to 
> run startx.  I searched /usr/X11R6/bin and couldn't locate the file either.
> 
> The second machine was also upgrading and I noticed the same/similar 
> failure to install xterm 206_1 due to a conflict with xorg-clients.  I 
> haven't attempted to fix it yet for fear of losing startx here also.
> 
> I'm thinking of deinstalling/reinstalling one, or more ports to 
> reinstall startx on machine #1.  (Not sure which ones, however). Any 
> suggestions?
> 
> Thnx,
> Bob Perry
> 
> 
Pls disregard.  Xorgclients was missing entirely.

Bob Perry


More information about the freebsd-questions mailing list