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From: Chip Camden on 22 Apr 2010 19:03
On Apr 21, 10:12 am, tim1948 <iconoklas...(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
> I upgraded my OS (8.0-RELEASE i386) to 8-STABLE. Up to the point where
> the ports tree was updated with portsnap, everything seemed to be
> fine. Then I used portmaster -a to upgrade the ports already
> installed, with about 200 to upgrade (a surprising number, for a
> distro that wasn't much out of date). Now GNOME doesn't come up: the
> hourglass appears, but then it goes back to the command line.
>
> I could try to find out what went wrong (how?), or take more drastic
> steps. I know it is possible to uninstall and replace GNOME. I made an
> image backup before the portmaster step, so I don't need to hesitate
> about trying bold things.

There were some recent troubles with a change made to math/gmp that
caused all sorts of issues with other packages, notably ghc. My
window manager (xmonad) relied on the old library, so I had to
manually reinstall that library to bring X up. You might be facing a
similar situation.
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