Cannot install xorg on dfly-x86_64-4.0.1_REL

Sepherosa Ziehau sepherosa at gmail.com
Sat Dec 27 00:16:49 PST 2014


On Sat, Dec 27, 2014 at 4:04 PM, Aero 9000 <mbg11665 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I'm not sure if this is the correct mailing list for me to post this to, but
> if not just tell me and I'll be out of your hair. Anyways, I've known of
> DragonFly BSD for a couple of years now, just never got round to install it
> until a few days ago. So I downloaded the greatest and latest version and
> set up a virtual machine just to give this one a try. Installation went
> smooth. However, since I'm more of a GUI type person I also wanted to set up
> xorg and then gnome (of XFCE or maybe even KDE). But I never got round to
> deciding which desktop I want, because of an error during setting up xorg.
>
> I typed, pkg install xorg
>
> That first caused pkg to update itself and then pkg started pulling in
> packages and installing them until an assertion failed. The message reads,
>
> Fetching xf86-input-keyboard-1.8.0.6.txz: 100%  9 KB   9.2k/s  00:01
>
> Checking integrity...assertion failed (pkgdb_ensure_loaded(j->db, p2,
> PKG_LOAD_FILES|PKG_LOAD_DIRS) == EPKG_OK), function
> pkg_conflicts_need_conflict, file pkg_jobs_conflicts.c, line 211.
>
> Child process pid=990 terminated abnormally: Abort trap
> # Dec 23 17:13:55  kernel: pid 990 (pkg), uid 0: exited on signal 6 (core
> dumped)

Temp solution/fixup suggested by bapt:
pkg fetch -u
pkg upgrade

Best Regards,
sephe



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