From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Fx3xA-0000dR-Vq for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 02 Jul 2006 15:33:45 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k62FWRBq028196; Sun, 2 Jul 2006 15:32:27 GMT Received: from colo15.ukhost4u.com (colo15.ukhost4u.com [85.13.251.161]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k62FOi1O032612 for ; Sun, 2 Jul 2006 15:24:44 GMT Received: from 61-50-89.adsl.terra.cl ([200.89.50.61] helo=[192.168.1.14]) by colo15.ukhost4u.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.52) id 1Fx3oK-0003U2-N9 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 02 Jul 2006 16:24:37 +0100 From: "Matthew R. Lee" Organization: CASEB, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 screwup Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2006 11:24:10 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200607021124.10952.gentoo@matthewlee.org> X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - colo15.ukhost4u.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - lists.gentoo.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - matthewlee.org X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-Archives-Salt: 7b173931-b602-44a2-bcc5-386a226c9e50 X-Archives-Hash: 3a6a03ed498468900e613133aeed42fc 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 -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% 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 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list