Over the last few weeks I've been slowly migrating my users off Linux and to FreeBSD and the install always went down the same route:
1. boot from the DVD, install including sources tree.
2. Change pkg repository to release/0, run
Today I am working from home to migrate another machine but it is different! I am noticing an error during install of xorg and after it's all done GDM does not start. It throws an error message regarding a missing libxcb.so.2 shared object. Indeed, libxcb.so.1 is there, but libxcb.so.2 is not. Making/installing/usr/ports/x11/libxcb did not fix the issue, not even after update of the ports tree.
Why all of a sudden that object is missing? I've installed a dozen or so boxes over the last month or so without hiccup until today.
1. boot from the DVD, install including sources tree.
2. Change pkg repository to release/0, run
pkg
and install xorg and gnome2.Today I am working from home to migrate another machine but it is different! I am noticing an error during install of xorg and after it's all done GDM does not start. It throws an error message regarding a missing libxcb.so.2 shared object. Indeed, libxcb.so.1 is there, but libxcb.so.2 is not. Making/installing/usr/ports/x11/libxcb did not fix the issue, not even after update of the ports tree.
Why all of a sudden that object is missing? I've installed a dozen or so boxes over the last month or so without hiccup until today.