portupgrade wrecked gnome!!! ~>8-(

[Michael C. Shultz]

On Thursday 03 March 2005 08:58 pm, Karl Agee wrote:
> Here is my tale of woe.
>
> Freebsd 4.11-stable.  I upgraded my ports using portupgrade -arR
> after cvsuping and make fetchindex and portsdb -u.  Things worked, so
> I went out and did portupgrade.
>
> But my gnome-2.8.2 install is hosed.  It starts but gives me no
> taskbars or button bars.  Just little iconlets--one on the top, the
> "quicklaunch toolbar" for a few apps I had in it, and a little
> something at the bottom which I cannot figure out what it is supposed
> to be.
>
> I tried doing a  make deinstall of gnome and cleared everything out
> of ports/distfiles.  But it didnt require anything new I imagine all
> it needed is still laying around here, broken.
>
> SO, my friends, I would like to get my gnome install back....
>
> --karl
>

Next time try upgrading with sysutils/portmanager, it may even fix the 
mess you have now.

-Mike