install error during xorg 7.2 upgrade

Doug Poland doug at polands.org
Wed May 23 17:56:07 UTC 2007


Dejan said:
>On Wednesday 23 of May 2007, Doug Poland wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I was following the instructions in /usr/ports/UPDATING
>> when I encountered issues.  This is what I have done so
>> far...
>>
>> # set BATCH=yes
>> # portupgrade -f -o ports-mgmt/portupgrade-devel portupgrade
>> # rm -f /usr/ports/INDEX*.db /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db
>> # pkgdb -fu
>> # cd /usr/ports && make index
>>
>> # setenv XORG_UPGRADE yes
>> # portupgrade -Rf libXft
>>
>> # portupgrade -a -x 'gstreamer*'
>>
SNIP
>>
>> Then I tried a portupgrade of xorg-server, but got:
>>
>> Making install in extmod
>> test -z "/usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/extensions" ||
/usr/ports/x11-servers/xorg-server/work/xorg-server-1.2.0/install-sh
-d
"/usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/extensions"
>> mkdir: /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/extensions: File exists
>> *** Error code 1
>
> Can you check if /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/extensions is
> a file instead of directory by any chance. If it is,
> remove it and try reinstalling xorg-server again.
>
>Dejan
>
extensions was a file.  I deleted it and reinstalled
xorg-server successfully.  Thanks for your help.

-- 
Regards,
Doug



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