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From: tim1948 on 21 Apr 2010 13:12
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distro that wasn't much out of date).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.
From: Bob Eager on 21 Apr 2010 13:37
On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 10:12:00 -0700, tim1948 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 out of date).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.

More likely it's X that isn't coming up.

1) rm /var/log/Xorg.0.log*

2) Then try to start it again.

3) Then go through Xorg.0.log and see what it tells you.



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