[gentoo-user] xorg-x11 screwup

["Matthew R. Lee" <gentoo@matthewlee.org>]

I upgraded my xorg-x11  the other day.  I followed the upgrade how-to, and 
everything seemed to go fine.  However when I rebooted it was screwed up.  
The xorg.conf was a mess.  I tried fixing it from memory but I couldn't sort 
it, and I'd forgoten to make a back up MY FAULT.  Anyway I downgraded to 
xorg-x11-6.8.2-r8 and got x back and sorted out the problem with the 
xorg.conf and made a backup.  I then attempted another go at upgrading and 
here's the problem.  I follow the guide again and after 'emerge xorg-x11' it 
says there is nothing to download, compiles nothing, cleans up and claims it 
is done.  I wasn't convinced, however I tried rebooting.  No X, so I logged 
in and issued 'startx', nothing so I checked '/usr/bin/startx', it's not 
there, clearly it hadn't installed x  So back to xorg-x11-6.8.2.-r8.  I've 
tried another emerge --sync to see if that would fix the problem but no joy.  
So the question is, how do I force portage to down load and recompile the 
packages from scratch? 

Matt
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Dr. Matthew R. Lee.
CASEB & ECIM
Departamento de Ecologia,
P. Universidad Catolica de Chile,
Alameda 340, Santiago,
CP 6513677
CHILE.

matt@matthewlee.org
mlee@bio.puc.cl

URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org
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