Okay, I have to admit I screwed up and forgot to CVS up before duilding dconf. Figured that out a few minutes after I drove away from internet access.
Fixed that todqay and went dconf-0.7.4p0->dconf-0.7.5. Now both FF4 and xxterm are running okay. I do build a few ports, often so I can see the source code or tinker. I was joking about deleteing all packages, but sounds like that helped others. Since I build stuff and keep a package cache, I often note that built packages do not get added to package cache, which I use to update another Desktop that right now has no internet. How do built vs downloaded packages interact? Sounds like I can run into trouble. I have noted that when I transfer a package cache to another computer that things do NOT seem to work out perfectly and what works on one, partially fails on another. Chris Bennett