[gentoo-user] Xorg-x11 problems

[gentoo-user] Xorg-x11 problems

[Pete Pardoe]

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Hi

I tried to move to moidular X but it failed so I roled everything back but I
now have a problem that has me stumped.  When I do an emerge -puD world
there are a whole slew of packages that are blocked by a non existant
package.  I have xorg-x11 6.8.2-r8 installed not 6.9 but get the following
in front of all the blocked packages.  How do I convince the system that it
doesn't have this package installed.

<=x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking

I have tried emerge --clean  x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9   and emerge --prune
x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 and they both tell me that the package is not there.
I have done a revdep-rebuild and an emerge --newuse --update --deep world
and nothing has fixed it.

Help!

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Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg-x11 problems

[Mantas Povilaitis]

On 8/3/06, Pete Pardoe <pete.pardoe@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> <=x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking
>
> I have tried emerge --clean  x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9   and emerge --prune
> x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 and they both tell me that the package is not there.

it is written <= before package name, so 6.8 counts too (6.8<6.9)
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Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg-x11 problems

[Toby Cubitt]

On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 12:43:26AM +0300, Mantas Povilaitis wrote:
> On 8/3/06, Pete Pardoe <pete.pardoe@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> ><=x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking
> >
> >I have tried emerge --clean  x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9   and emerge --prune
> >x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 and they both tell me that the package is not there.
> 
> it is written <= before package name, so 6.8 counts too (6.8<6.9)

Your problem is that the modular xorg is now in the stable tree, so
portage is trying to upgrade to the modular xorg when you do an emerge
world (if you look further down the list of packages that emerge world
is trying to install, you should see xorg-x11-7.0). The dependencies
pulled in by modular xorg have to be installed before xorg-x11 itself
can be upgraded, but they are blocked by your currently installed,
non-modular xorg-x11-6.8.

There are two solutions: unmerge the non-modular xorg-x11-6.8, and
then merge the modular xorg-x11-7.0 (following the migration guide on
www.gentoo.org). But you seem to have already tried this.

The second solution is mask modular xorg by adding the line

>x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8

to /etc/portage/package.mask (including the ">", obviously). Then
portage won't try to upgrade xorg, it won't pull in all those
dependencies that block on your version of xorg, and portage should
stop complaining.

HTH,

Toby
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Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg-x11 problems

[Pete Pardoe]

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Thanks Guys,

That cleared it up and so I went back and tried modular X again - it worked
except that I have no keyboard this time - any thoughts on this?

Pete

On 8/3/06, Toby Cubitt <tsc25@cantab.net> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 12:43:26AM +0300, Mantas Povilaitis wrote:
> > On 8/3/06, Pete Pardoe <pete.pardoe@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > ><=x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking
> > >
> > >I have tried emerge --clean  x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9   and emerge --prune
> > >x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 and they both tell me that the package is not
> there.
> >
> > it is written <= before package name, so 6.8 counts too (6.8<6.9)
>
> Your problem is that the modular xorg is now in the stable tree, so
> portage is trying to upgrade to the modular xorg when you do an emerge
> world (if you look further down the list of packages that emerge world
> is trying to install, you should see xorg-x11-7.0). The dependencies
> pulled in by modular xorg have to be installed before xorg-x11 itself
> can be upgraded, but they are blocked by your currently installed,
> non-modular xorg-x11-6.8.
>
> There are two solutions: unmerge the non-modular xorg-x11-6.8, and
> then merge the modular xorg-x11-7.0 (following the migration guide on
> www.gentoo.org). But you seem to have already tried this.
>
> The second solution is mask modular xorg by adding the line
>
> >x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8
>
> to /etc/portage/package.mask (including the ">", obviously). Then
> portage won't try to upgrade xorg, it won't pull in all those
> dependencies that block on your version of xorg, and portage should
> stop complaining.
>
> HTH,
>
> Toby
> --
> PhD Student
> Quantum Information Theory group
> Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics
> Garching, Germany
>
> email: toby@dr-qubit.org
> web: www.dr-qubit.org
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> gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
>
>


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Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg-x11 problems

[Adrian Frith]

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On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 12:12 -0300, Pete Pardoe wrote:
> Thanks Guys,
> 
> That cleared it up and so I went back and tried modular X again - it
> worked except that I have no keyboard this time - any thoughts on
> this?

emerge xf86-input-keyboard, perhaps?

(or add "keyboard" to INPUT_DEVICES in make.conf and then
emerge -uDN xorg-x11)

HTH,
Adrian

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Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg-x11 problems

[Pete Pardoe]

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Thanks to all!  I am up and running in modular X with keyboard and all.

Pete

On 8/5/06, Adrian Frith <adrian@frith.co.za> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 12:12 -0300, Pete Pardoe wrote:
> > Thanks Guys,
> >
> > That cleared it up and so I went back and tried modular X again - it
> > worked except that I have no keyboard this time - any thoughts on
> > this?
>
> emerge xf86-input-keyboard, perhaps?
>
> (or add "keyboard" to INPUT_DEVICES in make.conf and then
> emerge -uDN xorg-x11)
>
> HTH,
> Adrian
>
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> 083 393 1257 | 021 531 8719 | http://frith.co.za/~adrian/
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Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg-x11 problems

[Donnie Berkholz]

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Pete Pardoe wrote:
> I tried to move to moidular X but it failed so I roled everything back
> but I
> now have a problem that has me stumped.  

You filed a bug for the failure, right? Monolithic X won't be around
forever ...

> When I do an emerge -puD world
> there are a whole slew of packages that are blocked by a non existant
> package.  I have xorg-x11 6.8.2-r8 installed not 6.9 but get the following
> in front of all the blocked packages.  How do I convince the system that it
> doesn't have this package installed.
> 
> <=x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking
> 
> I have tried emerge --clean  x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9   and emerge --prune
> x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 and they both tell me that the package is not there.
> I have done a revdep-rebuild and an emerge --newuse --update --deep world
> and nothing has fixed it.

You may not realize "<=" means "less than or equal to," so your 6.8
installation would qualify.

If you want Gentoo to stop asking you to upgrade to the current stable
modular X every time you 'emerge world' then you may want to add
'>=x11-base/xorg-x11-7' to /etc/portage/package.mask.

Thanks,
Donnie


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