On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 12:00:13 -0400 (EDT), doug wrote: > I was running 8.2 stable and kde3.5. Originally I want to install chrome. I > trying to update the many interlocking components I eventually got to the > point > where I thought I would just start again so I removed all ports. > > At this point I lost networking, neither DHCP or manually configuring an IP > address worked so I put my data on a USB drive and really started over. My > question is would rebuilding the world likely have worked? If what else > should I > have tried before jumping off the deep end? Thanks for any thoughts
It should _not_ happen that removing installed ports prevents you from gaining essential networking functionality, such as obtaining data per DHCP. If you have installed the sources (/usr/src subtree), and the required building tools are working, try to rebuild world and install it as described in /usr/src/Makefile's comment section. If your world _matches_ the kernel installed, you can omit that step. In case it does _not_, you'll have to rebuild both world and kernel. Afterwards, you should be able to reinstall all needed ports and then restore the data to the system. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
