Solved gnome GUI crash of pkg upgrade to new at freebsd14.2p2 .

fff2024g

fff2024g

Dear all:
this morning, i have running "pkg upgrade" to new in freebsd14.2p2 . the gnome GUI can't start, and got errors in below .
warning: calling getsessionforunixprocess failed. check that consolekit is properly installed .
warning: could not get session id for session . check that consolekit is properly installed.
warning: unable to find required componet 'org.gnome.sheel'
failed: environment corrupt: missing value for XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP

please help me. thanks.
 
game@notepad:~ $ uname -a
FreeBSD notepad.edu.xxx 14.2-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 14.2-RELEASE-p1 GENERIC amd64
game@notepad:~ $ freebsd-version
14.2-RELEASE-p2
game@notepad:~ $

what happened to my system. i think that must was same.
 
what is best stable desktop GUI system in freebsd ? please let me know. because i must use Freebsd14.2 as desktop daily working. thanks.
 
hello all:
question has been solved through below step.
1. modify your /etc/pkg/FreeBSD,conf as below line
url: "pkg+https://pkg.freebsd.org/${ABI}/latest",

2. pkg upgrade

we will install lastest package to replace quarterly . now the question solved. thanks.
 
bgroper said:
# pkg reinstall kde/plasma
pkg: unknown command: reinstall
For more information on available commands and options see 'pkg help'.
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now, some GUI system was disappeared . you need to hold on some time.
1. pkg remove kde , pkg remove plasma
2. pkg install kde , pkg install plasma
 
fff2024g said:
now, some GUI system was disappeared . you need to hold on some time.
1. pkg remove kde , pkg remove plasma
2. pkg install kde , pkg install plasma
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Thanks for the suggestion, but I stopped installing the whole kde package a long time ago.
kde is a huge meta package that includes way too much bloatware, games, etc.
There's a smaller pkg subset that is preferred. Leaner and meaner is better.
 
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