On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 19:36, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: > On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 05:40:56PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 00:13, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: > > > > > > I'm running XFree86 4.4, which I installed from binaries on > > > the XFree86 site. This is working fine for me, except that I > > > often have to skip portinstall and use "make install" from the > > > relevant directory, because of all the dependencies on 4.3 > > > versions of things. (Using -O to force never seems to work; > > > it'll build but then hang on the "Uninstalling the old version" > > > stage.) > [...] > > > Is there any way I can upgrade to GNOME 2.6, or do I have to > > > wait until XFree86 4.4 makes it into Ports, whenever that is? > > > > You'll have to do it manually, but you're most likely going to run into > > problems. One thought might be to install the ports version of X, then > > upgrade GNOME, then reinstall XF86 4.4. > > Thanks! A variant of that did the trick, namely to delete the 4.4 > install, portinstall the Server-snap version, do the GNOME update, > and realize that my needed driver is provided in 4.3.99, and I'm > good to go. > > I am, however, having a problem with the login session. When I > try to log in, I instantly get an error message with "Your > session only lasted less than 10 seconds"; I can use the Failsafe > GNOME session without a problem, and .xsession-errors tells me > that > > /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libutil.so.3" not found > > I do have libutil.so.4 installed; is there some different package > I need that provides 3? I did reinstall gnomesession, but the > result was the same.
Looks like you installed an out-of-date package. You'll have to use ldd to find the binary linked to libutil.so.3, use pkg_info -W to find out which port installs it, then rebuild that port. Joe > > Thanks! I googled for this but no one else seems to have reported > the problem. > > Jesse Sheidlower > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- Joe Marcus Clarke FreeBSD GNOME Team :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome
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