Eric: thanks for responding quickly! I took your advice and used Octopkg to uninstall Firefox, Clementine, and Mate-terminal, and rebooted. I then used Octopkg again to reinstall all three, but to no avail. Firefox opens a black window with the cursor, but no spinning wheel indicating an application loading, and no home page. Clementine and Mate-terminal would not load at all. So I opened Xterm, and ran pkg remove on all three, and then pkg install again.
When running pkg remove, I got this message:
[4/5] Deinstalling firefox-61.0_1,1...
rmdir:
/usr/local/lib/firefox: Directory not empty
When reinstalling firefox, I got:
Message from firefox-61.0_1,1:
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Some features available on other platforms are not implemented:
• Native audio (OSS backend is incomplete, doesn't support WebRTC)
• Encrypted Media Extensions (requires Widevine CDM binary)
• Process snadboxing (requires Capsicum backend)
• Reduced memory usage (requires mozjemalloc)
• Performance profiling (requires GeckoProfiler)
• Gamepad API (requires libusbhid backend)
• WebVR (requires open source runtime)
• TCP fast open
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To select non-default audio backend open about:config page and create
media.cubeb.backend preference. Supported values are: also, jack, pulse,
pulse-rust, oss, sndio. Current used backend can be inspected on
about:support page.
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smb:// issues (Gvfs/GIO option):
Network group, machine, and share browsing does not work correctly.
sftp:// (Gvfs/GIO option):
Only sftp access using public key authentication works. To easily
setup public key authentication to "remote_host":
ssh-keygen
cat "/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh remote_host "cat>> .ssh/authorized_keys"
The SSH server on remote_host must allow pub key authentication.
When installing Clementine, I got:
pkg: no packages available to install matching 'clementine' have been found in the repositories
When installing Mate-terminal, I got:
No such key 'background-color' in schema 'org.mate.terminal.profiles' as specified in override file '/usr/local/share/glib-2.0/schemas/92_org.mate-terminal.gschema.override'; ignoring override for this key.
No such key 'foreground-color' in schema 'org.mate.terminal.profiles' as specified in override file '/usr/local/share/glib-2.0/schemas/92_org.mate-terminal.gschema.override'; ignoring override for this key.
To send this message, I installed palemoon, but that browser would not connect to
https://ghostbsd.org. I then installed epiphany, and that worked.
I also found that the system would not automount a usb drive.
I'm really puzzled; Ghost has run flawlessly for me for a number of months now. Any suggestions are welcome.