Users Digest, Vol 93, Issue 8

[Jonathan Engwall]

On Saturday, May 23, 2020, <users-request at dragonflybsd.org> wrote:

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>    1. Re: Upgrade from 5.5 failed (Pierre Abbat)
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> Date: Fri, 22 May 2020 15:08:09 -0400
> From: Pierre Abbat <phma at leaf.dragonflybsd.org>
> To: users at dragonflybsd.org
> Subject: Re: Upgrade from 5.5 failed
> Message-ID: <1638012.WuFyIxViAJ at puma>
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> Here are the contents of /usr/local:
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> bin                             llvm50
> brlcad                          llvm60
> env                             llvm80
> etc                             man
> gcc-aux                         openjdk8
> include                         openssl
> info                            poudriere
> kde4                            sbin
> lib                             share
> libdata                         tests
> libexec                         var
> llvm35                          www
> llvm36                          x86_64-portbld-dragonfly5.6
> llvm40
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> I have scripts in /usr/local/bin/ and /usr/local/sbin/ and configuration
> (such
> as Postfix) in /usr/local/etc/. What should I move elsewhere or delete
> before
> reinstalling packages? Are any of these directories obsolete?
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> Pierre
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> Date: Fri, 22 May 2020 15:08:11 -0400
> From: Pierre Abbat <phma at leaf.dragonflybsd.org>
> To: users at dragonflybsd.org
> Subject: Re: Upgrade from 5.5 failed
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> On Sunday, May 17, 2020 3:45:01 PM EDT Jonathan Engwall wrote:
> > 5.8 obviously. As to your problem according to you, your problem is bin
> > files since kernel 4.00. So get rid of the old files, (that is what you
> say
> > you want to do), reload your kernel modules, start your python env so you
> > can run qt5, and figure out what to do with your software.
> > I am trying to be helpful. Cmake gives you your error. I read it, file
> not
> > found. Which file? I don't you because you haven't shared that
> information.
> > Last night I learned a new command. You can test it:
> > stat /usr/include/X11/Xlib.h
> > It should return a nice looking table, though mine machine did not. If it
> > does you will know you have the xorg build environment correctly
> installed.
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> On DragonFly, X11 is not part of world, and packages are installed in /usr/
> local/. So you can stat /usr/local/include/X11/Xlib.h .


Stat it, what does it say.

>
> > download and then compile one from it. Then having three, delete the
> > oldest. What can it possibly do but lock files? Nothing good at all, that
> > is what.
>
> You don't understand the problem. The problem started with a failed disk,
> then

And then...

> I lost the package database, but not the installed files. Also, neither my

And then...

> program nor Qt5 is in Python. They're in C++.

Let's use Qt5 also, that will be fun, everything is okay...

So it's cmake, a dead disk, a missing database, and dragonfly 5.6,  but
don't version or burn on an installation disk!

I'm not talking to you anymore.

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> Stick around and keep learning.
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> Pierre
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