Abnormal termination of greeter - cause is libX11 version

[Justin C. Sherrill]

On Sat, July 31, 2010 11:58 pm, Pierre Abbat wrote:

> I'd also like to reinstall vlc, but it's not in pkgin, and the version in
> pkgsrc tries to install the libraries for kde4, which messes up my pkgin
> packages. How do I downgrade pkgsrc to match pkgin?

The version of pkgsrc you have installed is shown in whatever tag it's
against - /usr/pkgsrc/CVS/Tag contains the tag.  It should be
pkgsrc-2010Q1 to make sure that when you build manually, you're building
the same versions as what pkgin is downloading from avalon.  If it's not,
you can manually make it match and then update with

setenv CVSROOT anoncvs at anoncvs.NetBSD.org:/cvsroot
setenv CVS_RSH ssh
cd /usr
cvs -q update -dP

You can also delete /usr/pkgsrc and restore it with exactly the version
you want with:

setenv CVSROOT anoncvs at anoncvs.NetBSD.org:/cvsroot
setenv CVS_RSH ssh
cd /usr
cvs -q checkout -rpkgsrc-2010Q1 -P pkgsrc

(notice only the last line is different.)

If there's no tag, you're building from the bleeding edge of pkgsrc, which
will get you the newest versions but also the newest issues, and is very
likely the cause of these version mismatches.  I would advise:

- Making sure you have pkgsrc-2010Q1 as your /usr/pkgsrc/

- Make sure that pkgin is pointing to the right repository of files on
avalon.  2.7 should show in the path, since you are running 2.7.

You should be able to build everything at that point.  (Look at
pkg_rolling-replace if you want something to run through every option for
you.)

I am working on new pkgsrc-2010Q2 binaries, but it will be at least a few
days before those are available, and I'll send out an announcement when
they are.  When they are available, do as before: make sure your local
/usr/pkgsrc is updated to that release, and I'll mention when the
"/stable/" link for pkgin is updated to point at packages with that newer
release.


You mentioned before that you are downloading 2.6 packages on a 2.7
system.  That can work right now, but it's better to match exactly.  Look
at the path set for pkgin.