On Tuesday 12 June 2007 10:47:24 am John Nielsen wrote:
> On Tuesday 12 June 2007 08:55:54 am Gerard wrote:
> > I have had nothing but grief since updating to the new Xorg-7.2
> > version on my PC. Unexplained crashes, lockups, etc. No doubt, some of
> > the problems are my fault; however I cannot seem to get them corrected.
> >
> > Now, I was wondering how this would work.
> >
> > 1) Download a fresh ISO of FreeBSD-6.2 on to another PC
> > 2) Erase my HDs on the PC presently running FBSD
> > 3) Reformat the HDs
> > 4) Install the fresh copy of FBSD
> >
> > Will that give me a system that I can directly install Xorg-7.2 on to
> > or do I still have to go through the procedure shown in the "UPDATING"
> > file? Suppose I install Xorg-7.2 doing the actual install of FBSD;
> > will that make any difference? In any case, I would build a new kernel
> > ASAP after the new install.
>
> That should work fine, as long as you remember to run mergebase.sh on the
> new system. It's counterintuitive and won't have much work to do, but it
> will do useful things like create the /usr/X11R6 -> /usr/local symlink and
> change some defaults in /etc so (e.g.) rc.d and periodic scripts won't run
> twice.
>
> If it's just your ports you're trying to refresh and don't have any worries
> about your base system, you could also try something like this:
>
> 0) Back up your entire system. Also make a note of what packages you have
> installed (pkg_info > /root/pkg-list.txt, for example).
>
> 1) Delete ALL ports from your system. I find it's most efficient to do
> something like this:
> a) make backups, esp of files in /usr/local/etc
> b) # pkg_info | awk -F ' ' '{print $1}' | xargs pkg_delete -f
For the archives, this works better with "xargs -n 1" in place of "xargs"
above.
JN
> c) review remaining files under /usr/X11R6 and /usr/local, if any
> d) # rm -r /usr/X11R6/* /usr/local/*
>
> 2) Update your base system. csup, buildworld, etc.
>
> 3) Update your ports tree. portsnap, etc.
>
> 4) Run mergebase.sh
> # sh /usr/ports/Tools/scripts/mergebase.sh
>
> 5) Reinstall everything you want installed.
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