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Perfect. Thank you.

I have installed nvidia-driver, nvidia-xconfig and nvidia-settings following the advice on in this thread: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=28851 Installation worked: $ pkg_info | grep nvidia nvidia-driver-290.10 NVidia graphics card binary drivers for hardware OpenGL ren...

Okay I have now installed lame, as a test case, using ports. You asked what shell I was using. It was, and is bash. But your question led me to go back to sh, and then lame installed. So then I deleted lame, went back to bash, and started deleted lines in my /root/.bashrc and and found these...

No, not trying to use sudo. Problem persists with both logging in as root or suing to it. /usr/ports/x11/mrxvt-devel # ls -lt total 24 drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 512 Jan 14 06:58 work/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jan 14 06:51 files/ -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 500 Oct 23 23:17 pkg-descr...

True, and pkg_add is working so it is not a network issue. But many ports, like lame, cannot be installed by pkg_add.

I should have mentioned of course the pkg-descr files are all present. For instance: /usr/ports/x11/mrxvt-devel # ls Makefile distinfo files/ pkg-descr pkg-plist work/

I have a fresh installation of FreeBSD 9. I installed the ports tree but I cannot install any ports. Here are some examples of output: ===> Building for xf86driproto-2.1.1 ===> Installing for xf86driproto-2.1.1 ===> Generating temporary packing list ** Missing pkg-descr for...