xfce4 broke after pkgdb -Ff

[John Nielsen]

On Thursday 17 May 2007 02:37:15 pm KAYVEN RIESE wrote:
> On Thu, 17 May 2007, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> > Please don't top-post.
> >
> > KAYVEN  RIESE <kayve at sfsu.edu> writes:
> >> so the "-r" option will be the significant difference for the
> >> portupgrade comamnd, just verifying
> >
> > Yes.  Otherwise, you may end up with some of the ports that depend on
> > pango being unable to use the new version.
> >
> > Make sure you look through the UPDATING file to see if there are any
> > other issues you need to take special action for at the same time.
>
> this guy seems to disagree
>
> jnielsendotnet:Try what I asked in my first reply (deleting and
> reinstalling pango manually), and see if you can get any error messages
> from xfce.
>
> If portupgrade -f is failing portupgrade -fr isn't likely to succeed
> either.

Portupgrade with the -r option is very useful, and you will probably want to 
use it. My point was that _before_ you try that you should figure out why 
portupgrade is failing to upgrade pango, and/or upgrade it manually. 
Otherwise it will just keep failing.

JN