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 1Fx8Tz-0003Jk-9A for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 02 Jul 2006 20:23:55 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k62KMe47032322; Sun, 2 Jul 2006 20:22:40 GMT Received: from zaz.kom.auc.dk (zaz.kom.auc.dk [130.225.51.10]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k62KG3kk026747 for ; Sun, 2 Jul 2006 20:16:03 GMT Received: from pc163-c.stud.ies.auc.dk ([10.8.12.163]) by zaz.kom.auc.dk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #3) id 1Fx8MM-0004du-00 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 2 Jul 2006 22:16:02 +0200 From: Bo =?utf-8?q?=C3=98rsted_Andresen?= To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 screwup Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2006 22:17:05 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 References: <200607021124.10952.gentoo@matthewlee.org> <44A81C4C.6070004@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <44A81C4C.6070004@gentoo.org> 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: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2655349.7JibJuGSoF"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200607022217.05884.bo.andresen@zlin.dk> X-Archives-Salt: 229bcc80-f217-498a-8c8c-761741748a1f X-Archives-Hash: b843aefb70f8197a2a73771de75791aa --nextPart2655349.7JibJuGSoF Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Sunday 02 July 2006 21:19, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Matthew R. Lee wrote: > > 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 > > This is a really weird issue that's been coming up, where the packages > are "installed" but files are missing. What filesystem(s) are you using? > > > 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? > > You could try `emerge -ep xorg-x11`. When user upgrades to modular X.org there is a block that requires him to=20 remove xorg-x11-6.8*. Then the user upgrades, reboots and finds out there i= s=20 something wrong. So he downgrades. But when downgrading there is no block=20 requiring him to remove modular X first. So he merges xorg-x11-6.8 which=20 overwrites a *LOT* of modular X files like e.g. startx and only unmerges=20 xorg-x11-7.0 which is a very small package. Now the user decides to upgrade= =20 again so he unmerges xorg-x11-6.8 again and it removes all the files but=20 portage still thinks modular X is installed except of xorg-x11-7*. So when = he=20 emerges xorg-x11-7* that package is the only one which is remerged... =2D-=20 Bo Andresen --nextPart2655349.7JibJuGSoF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBEqCnB8/kKEzmwNNoRAs1lAJ9MNjYp5vWX9ZuTyDRaafGiwFTfTwCg3Ezs cKonLke1g9jU+8dABWlXNd0= =R7YD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2655349.7JibJuGSoF-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list