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
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