Broke GUI recovery

Recently I tested xlibre on my system without a safety net which tends to be my usual method.  As mentioned in the previous blog post, I was stuck again using scfb because of unknown reasons.  After many attempts to reinstall rebuilt ports or reinstall pkgs that I knew would be necessary to help me back to a usable GUI on a 4k screen, I gave up.  I wasn't making any progress, and even desktop-installer was no help this time, so I chose to start from nothing instead.  I issued pkg delete -a -f and then tried pkg info to prove that nothing lingered.  This was when pkg reminded me that it was removed also and needed to be bootstrapped back into the system.  This was easy, just had to answer 'y' to the prompt.

Many of my troubles are self-inflicted but some are due to various other things I may encounter though I do not know whether its unique to my situation.  I have in the past encountered issues with various things except that because of how I may be non-standard or do not always use the accepted official way to do things, I cannot report them.  All of this means that when I get myself into trouble, when I break my system softwarewise, I will need to find my own way out of the forest, rarely are any easy breadcrumbs scattered on the ground.

Since I have been through this a few times, although on my newer box which means many files I created with lists of things and other stuff are not present.  Those are possibly still on my former at present 'software + filesystem' broken system.  I know even from recent posts which things I need to reinstall.  What I didn't know about these things is all the stuff that each one installs as dependencies, so starting from nothing will look different than the reinstalls I did not long ago.

First was graphics/mesa-dri which gave me graphics/mesa-libs and graphics/libdrm which had been seperate steps in the past, now I know that was redundant.  Along with those I got graphics/libglvnd and graphics/glslang as well as a long list of things.

devel/autoconf
devel/autoconf-switch
devel/automake
devel/binutils
devel/bison
devel/bsddialog
security/ca_root_nss
devel/ccache
devel/cmake-core
sysutils/coreutils
textproc/expat2
devel/gettext-runtime
devel/gettext-tools
graphics/glslang
devel/gmake
math/gmp
misc/help2man
sysutils/htop
misc/hwdata
print/indexinfo
devel/jsoncpp
x11/libX11
x11/libXau
x11/libXdamage
x11/libXdmcp
x11/libXext
x11/libXfixes
x11/libXrandr
x11/libXrender
x11/libXv
x11/libXxf86vm
graphics/libdrm
devel/libedit
devel/libffi
graphics/libglvnd
converters/libiconv
dns/libidn2
archivers/liblz4
devel/libpciaccess
devel/libtextstyle
devel/libtool
devel/libunistring
devel/libuv
x11/libxcb
textproc/libxml2
x11/libxshmfence
textproc/libyaml
devel/llvm19
lang/lua53
lang/lua54
devel/m4
graphics/mesa-dri
graphics/mesa-libs
devel/meson
math/mpdecimal
math/mpfr
devel/ninja
security/openssl
devel/p5-Locale-gettext
devel/p5-Locale-libintl
converters/p5-Text-Unidecode
textproc/p5-Unicode-EastAsianWidth
devel/pcre2
lang/perl5.42
ports-mgmt/pkg
devel/pkgconf
ports-mgmt/portconfig
devel/py-babel
textproc/py-CommonMark
devel/py-Jinja2
textproc/py-alabaster
www/py-beaker
devel/py-build
devel/py-calver
security/py-certifi
textproc/py-charset-normalizer
lang/cython
textproc/py-docutils
devel/py-flit-core
devel/py-future
devel/py-hatchling
dns/py-idna
graphics/py-imagesize
devel/py-installer
textproc/py-mako
textproc/py-markdown
textproc/py-markdown-it-py
textproc/py-markupsafe
textproc/py-mdit-py-plugins
textproc/py-mdurl
textproc/py-myst-parser
devel/py-packaging
devel/py-pathspec
misc/py-pexpect
devel/py-pluggy
devel/py-ply
sysutils/py-ptyprocess
textproc/py-pygments
devel/py-pyproject-hooks
net/py-pysocks
textproc/py-pystemmer
devel/py-pyyaml
textproc/py-recommonmark
www/py-requests
devel/py-setuptools
devel/py-setuptools-scm
textproc/py-snowballstemmer
textproc/py-sphinx
textproc/py-sphinx-markdown-tables
textproc/py-sphinxcontrib-applehelp
textproc/py-sphinxcontrib-devhelp
textproc/py-sphinxcontrib-htmlhelp
textproc/py-sphinxcontrib-jsmath
textproc/py-sphinxcontrib-qthelp
textproc/py-sphinxcontrib-serializinghtml
devel/py-trove-classifiers
devel/py-typing-extensions
net/py-urllib3
devel/py-wheel
devel/py-wheel044
lang/python311
devel/readline
security/rhash
graphics/spirv-tools
devel/swig
print/texinfo
x11/xcb-proto
devel/xorg-macros
x11/xorgproto
x11/xtrans
archivers/zstd

After all of that was built and installed and cleaned, I went to the next essential item, graphics/drm-kmod which gave me all of the amd, intel, and radeon kmod files but pkg origin which was how I got these lists after the fact did not show the specifics of the numerous chipset names.  No sense listing those multiple duplicates here though they were actually different at install.

graphics/drm-66-kmod
graphics/drm-kmod
graphics/gpu-firmware-amd-kmod
graphics/gpu-firmware-intel-kmod
graphics/gpu-firmware-kmod
graphics/gpu-firmware-radeon-kmod

Next I should have been smarter about it but since graphics was my main issue previously, I was too focused on that aspect not to also focus solely on installing the amdgpu graphics driver.  Later I installed the x11-drivers/xorg-drivers after configuring it for what I specifically needed, a pkg install would include scfb and vesa and maybe intel drivers, all of which I do not want, do not use, and generally do not need.  So as I have mentioned before, I build xorg-drivers from source each time.  The one interesting thing about starting from very little already installed, is that xorg-drivers/xf86-video-amdgpu also installs xorg-server.  I hadn't noticed my error about not installing all the other drivers until after I got fvwm3 reinstalled, but the list from the xorg-drivers install is below, not quite in the pkg origin order it would have given.

archivers/brotli
devel/evdev-proto
print/freetype2
x11-fonts/libXfont2
x11/libXi
graphics/libepoxy
x11-fonts/libfontenc
security/libgcrypt
security/libgpg-error
devel/libudev-devd
devel/libunwind
x11/libxcvt
x11/libxkbfile
textproc/libxslt
x11/pixman
graphics/png
x11-drivers/xf86-video-amdgpu
x11/xkbcomp
x11/xkeyboard-config
x11-servers/xorg-server
x11/libXxf86vm
x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard
x11-drivers/xf86-input-libinput
x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse

One note about the x11-drivers/xf86-input-libinput driver option, it leads to libinput whose config is to avoid the checked by default wacom option which also may lead to webcamd, I do not need either of those.  Except for that, I mostly chose to accept all defaults.  After I installed the amdgpu driver I chose to install x11/xinit which is where I get startx for later use.  The last thing I needed to get a usable desktop was x11-wm/fvwm3 and I generally use the much more recent fvwm3-dev which I keep updated on my own.  What I forgot again was that I did not have x11/xterm installed and this is not added by fvwm3, so at the time I had to reset my pc to exit the gui because I only had the graphics driver installed (though I present it not in this order above).  When I noticed xterm was needed after I added the input drivers, I still had to exit fvwm3 but could use the menu option.

Once I had xterm installed and was back in fvwm3, I could add the other missing items, feh, gkrellm2, umix, bluefish, and firefox.  A few things had an issue with cython installing as a dependency, so to save time, I installed them by pkg even though I keep my own feh-dev updated somewhat regularly.  Many things were still configured for the much smaller screen scfb would permit me to use, so I may want to adjust some of that, but aside from other things I may realize are not present I am done with recovery from my non-recommended xlibre test method.

Now a recap for the recovery from nothing, because these notes are more likely to remain than any hand-written paper.  Below includes a few configurations and a proper ordering of steps.  Note that any desktop environment such as KDE or similar is very extensive and may have a lot of the below as dependencies itself.

1. pkg delete -a or pkg delete -a -f which will also remove pkg itself.
   
2. make install clean for each of the following port origins, or pkg install if you like all defaults.
   
   • graphics/mesa-dri provides mesa-libs, libdrm, libglvnd, glslang
   • graphics/drm-kmod provides gpu-firmware-amd-kmod, gpu-firmware-kmod
   • Configure x11-drivers/xorg-drivers for amdgpu (or your preferred graphics driver), keyboard, libinput, mouse
   • Configure x11/libinput to untick libwacom
   • x11-drivers/xorg-drivers provides configured drivers and x11-servers/xorg-server
   • x11/xinit provides startx
   • x11/xterm
   • x11-wm/fvwm3 (or your preferred mininmalist window manager)
3. startx