As suggested by David Gutteridge, I commented out the startup of the dbus, hal
and avahi daemons in rc.conf. When I did this, xfce4 came up and appeared to
be working. So that begs the question, why the install of xfce4 also installs
these daemons and why aren’t they working in 2018Q4 and curr
Watching the output fly by (mostly) on my build hosts, it appears that
'./build.sh -u ...' rebuilds all of kerberos anyway, even if the most
recent source update seems not to have touched anything in kerberos or
anything it might depend on. It does this even if one does an update
build following a