Issue with startxfce4 after version upgrade from 11.4 to 12.2

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rraj

Hi

After upgrade from 11.4 to 12.2, running startxfce4 throws following error:
ld-elf.so.1: Shared object “libcrypto.so.8” not found, required by “Xorg”
xinit: giving up
xinit: unable to connect to X server: Operation timed out
xinit: server error

Xorg.0.log can be found at: https://termbin.com/v9rn.
 
You need to reinstall all your ports/packages after a major version upgrade.
 
rraj said:
Made a deinstall & then reinstall pkg through ports.
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No need to deinstall anything. Just pkg upgrade, it'll notice there's been a major version change and automatically reinstall everything.
 
SirDice said:
No need to deinstall anything. Just pkg upgrade, it'll notice there's been a major version change and automatically reinstall everything.
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Going by the book, 24.2.3.2. Upgrading Packages After a Major Version Upgrade:
[...]
A forced upgrade of all installed packages will replace the packages with fresh versions from the repository even if the version number has not increased. This is required because of the ABI version change when upgrading between major versions of FreeBSD. The forced upgrade can be accomplished by performing:
Code: 
# pkg-static upgrade -f
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(my emphasis)

A clean base FreeBSD install contains only pkg(7); when pkg has been bootstrapped, it is "transformed" into pkg(8). This bootstrapping entails that ports-mgmt/pkg is installed with, for example, the files needed for pkg(8) and pkg-static(8). The file /usr/local/sbin/pkg-static is different from the ordinary pkg file; however, note that both share the same man page. The difference between pkg(8) and pkg-static(8) is explained in pkg vs pkg-static.
 
If you run pkg upgrade after the second freebsd-update install then it should work just fine. If you run it after the third freebsd-update install then you may need to use pkg bootstrap -f or pkg-static upgrade. The reason is that after the third install run the old libraries would be removed, which could potentially break the installed pkg(8).

Before a certain version (forgot which version exactly) of pkg(8) it couldn't tell if you did a major version upgrade, hence the use of pkg-static upgrade -f in the handbook. The current versions of pkg(8) should be able to detect this and automagically reinstall everything.
 
Thanks for that historical perspective and the current aspects with respect to a possible breaking of pkg(8).

I have a question about this topic. Searching the man pages, I could not find any reference as to applying pkg upgrade (with or without the "-f") after a FreeBSD (major) update has taken place. Am I overlooking something or, should this aspect "just" be known* to users that operate purely based on "man page information" ?

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* knowing of ABI changes and that ports depend on it, this is the (logical) conclusion but, I find it strange that it isn't mentioned if only in a single line.
 
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