Blundered with gnome-desktop

[rasz]

manish jain wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I blundered - I downloaded the latest ports tarball and did a 'make 
> install' in deskutils/conduit. The conduit port asked for a deinstall 
> followed by a reinstall in gnome-desktop, which I promptly complied 
> with. As was bound to happen, everything in gnome is now 
> broken/paralysed. Being a gnomer, I do not want to abandon my gnome 
> environment. Just to make sure before attempting recovery, will the 
> following 2 steps generally be able to fix things for me :
>
> #1)
> pkgdb -aF
>
> #2)
> portupgrade -L /var/gnome2-upgrade-logs/portupgrade-%s::%s.log -l \ 
> /root/gnome2-portupgrade-results.txt -vrR -x gnome-desktop gnome-desktop
>
just in case, do you know if your gnome before this was updated to 
lastest version (2.24.x) ? cuz the above could get messy if you had 
previous version and only updated gnome-desktop. (there is something in 
ports/UPDATING)