FX Posted December 14, 2005 Report Share Posted December 14, 2005 hmmm.......... I'm dong a portupgrade -arR now because when I tried to do a make install clean in gnome2 I was getting errors and had to pkg_deinstall and then pkg_reinstall. Nice distro, just too bad there are too many O.E.'s on my part. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FX Posted December 14, 2005 Report Share Posted December 14, 2005 Welp I throw in the towel. You can only re-install so many times and do a portupgrade so many times. Its probably mostly O.E. (operator error) but I've done everything suggested that I know of and things still will not work right. Kind of sick of having my gaming computer unavailable to me. :D On the last portupgrade firefox fails to start. XChat is at like 1.8 or something like that. Gnome is still 2.10. At the end of the portupgrade it like only upgraded 22 packages. Can't remember how many it didn't or ignored all together. Cybr I'd still like to thank you for the help and suggestions though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted December 15, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 15, 2005 Thats cool, I used bsd off/on over the years and frustration was certainly part of it :) I'm doing a lot of work on solaris10 and rh right now so i really should stop booting into bsd to play :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FX Posted December 15, 2005 Report Share Posted December 15, 2005 Ok, so not being the type of person who likes to give up I found this..... The ports collection (FreeBSD's package management system) is installed into /usr/ports by ServePath. The first thing to do is to make sure that the latest patch sets have been installed. # cd /usr/ports # cd sysutils/portmanager && make all install && cd /usr/ports # cd sysutils/portsnap && make all install && cd /usr/local/etc # mv portsnap.conf.sample portsnap.conf && cd /usr/local/sbin # ./portsnap fetch && ./portsnap extract The above commands will install two programs, portmanager, and portsnap. These programs update the installed applications and uninstalled sources, respectively. These two programs work together in keeping FreeBSD up to date. In order to apply the updated patch sets, execute the below: # /usr/local/sbin/portsnap fetch # /usr/local/sbin/portsnap update In order to upgrade the installed applications, execute: # /usr/local/sbin/portmanager -u It is updating now and I'll see what I have after its done. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted December 15, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 15, 2005 Awesome, glad your staying with it, once you get it down, it gets better ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FX Posted December 15, 2005 Report Share Posted December 15, 2005 Welp let see.... After doing the update firefox still will not start because it is missing some lib*. Not sure what one. (I thought BSD had NO dependency problems when installing a program?) Gnome fails during "make install clean" XChat is at like 1.8 something. (I thought that portmanager -u or even portsnap -arR upgrades your system? ) I am at a complete lost. Ix how are you doing with this??? lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted December 21, 2005 Report Share Posted December 21, 2005 I have been out of town on a mission trip to New Orleans. But, in reading the thread, I am going to try again. I have not been able to get FreeBSD to use either Firefox or Nvidia drivers. I did find that building the system was a bit nightmareish because I could do things without the necessary depends! I do not have the hang of it as yet. I am trying your suggections. I already went around "uninstalling-reinstalling" to get the libs thing straight. There are at least 4 programs that apparently do not agree with the install disk and the current tree. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FX Posted December 21, 2005 Report Share Posted December 21, 2005 I gave up and it is now replaced with Fedora Core 4. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted December 21, 2005 Report Share Posted December 21, 2005 It freezes while compiling nvidia-settings. It also froze while compiling firefox. I am beginning to not have fun!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest not_cool Posted December 27, 2005 Report Share Posted December 27, 2005 check your memory, it might be incompatable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted December 28, 2005 Report Share Posted December 28, 2005 Clarify please. Do you mean incompatible with BSD? I have already compiled with linux without issues. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted December 28, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 28, 2005 In the boot menu, have you tried to boot without apic? As far as memory, not sure how that would fit in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FX Posted January 9, 2006 Report Share Posted January 9, 2006 Well since I like self punishment I reinstalled again. So far I have done "portsnap fetch, extract" and thats it. Been kind of afraid to do the update thingy. I also removed the # in the /etc/portsnap.conf file. As of right now I get a error from the ports when trying to install either the nvidia driver or mplayer. gamer# pkg_add -r mplayer Error: FTP Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i...st/mplayer.tbz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) pkg_add: unable to fetch 'ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.0-release/Latest/mplayer.tbz' by URL gamer# pkg_add -r nvidia-driver Error: FTP Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i...dia-driver.tbz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) pkg_add: unable to fetch 'ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.0-release/Latest/nvidia-driver.tbz' by URL That is where I am at now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted January 9, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 9, 2006 How about building from souce from the ports dir, does that work? Were ever the mirror is at, try pointing it to another server. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FX Posted January 10, 2006 Report Share Posted January 10, 2006 well ran the gnome 2.12 install script and it failed. From what I gathered it failed because not all the packages updated with portupgrade. Here is a printout from the failure starting with the errors. [updating the pkgdb <format:bdb1_btree> in /var/db/pkg ... - 203 packages found (-1 +0) (...) done] ---> Installing the new version via the port with make flags: BATCH=yes GNOME_UPGRADE_SH_VER=2.12-3 DISABLE_VULNERABILITIES=1 ===> Installing for xterm-206_1 ===> xterm-206_1 conflicts with installed package(s): xorg-clients-6.8.2 They install files into the same place. Please remove them first with pkg_delete(1). *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11/xterm. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11/xterm. ** Command failed [exit code 1]: /usr/bin/script -qa /tmp/portupgrade9032.3 make BATCH=yes GNOME_UPGRADE_SH_VER=2.12-3 DISABLE_VULNERABILITIES=1 reinstall egrep: /var/db/pkg/xterm-203/+CONTENTS: No such file or directory ---> Restoring the old version ** Fix the installation problem and try again. [updating the pkgdb <format:bdb1_btree> in /var/db/pkg ... - 204 packages found (-0 +1) . done] ---> Skipping 'x11/xorg-clients' (xorg-clients-6.8.2) because a requisite package 'xterm-203' (x11/xterm) failed (specify -k to force) ** Listing the failed packages (*:skipped / !:failed) ! x11-toolkits/qt33 (qt-3.3.4) (unknown build error) ! x11/xterm (xterm-203) (install error) * x11/xorg-clients (xorg-clients-6.8.2) ---> Packages processed: 2 done, 0 ignored, 1 skipped and 2 failed INFO: GNOME upgrade FAILED at Tue Jan 10 06:39:00 CST 2006 gamer# Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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