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 1GZUif-0006O6-It for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 15:49:38 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k9GFksu2010677; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 15:46:54 GMT Received: from cranium.sybase.co.za (sqlprd.sybase.co.za [192.96.139.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k9GFiKnP014610 for ; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 15:44:22 GMT Received: from localhost (cranium.sybase.co.za [127.0.0.1]) by cranium.sybase.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5062183445 for ; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 17:48:41 +0200 (SAST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at sybase.co.za Received: from cranium.sybase.co.za ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (cranium.sybase.co.za [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 4AIJEWZ4oWWm for ; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 17:48:33 +0200 (SAST) Received: from bard.sybase.co.za (bard.sybase.co.za [192.168.2.6]) by cranium.sybase.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68A8483435 for ; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 17:48:33 +0200 (SAST) Received: from jimmynote.sybase.co.za ([192.168.2.87]) by bard.sybase.co.za with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Mon, 16 Oct 2006 17:46:06 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server update problem. Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 17:45:15 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: In-Reply-To: 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="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200610161745.15501.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 16 Oct 2006 15:46:06.0499 (UTC) FILETIME=[31599730:01C6F13A] X-Archives-Salt: 5f46aad2-e010-40d6-8a57-49b54c8ae627 X-Archives-Hash: cf8d770e18c3783fa97d9120fe1dd862 On Monday 16 October 2006 17:15, James wrote: > Hello, [snip] > !!! Cannot write to '/usr/share/X11/xkb/compiled'. [snip] > /usr/share/X11/xkb shows: > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Sep 4 03:24 compiled -> /var/lib/xkb > /var/lib/xkb does not exist. > > Any ideas what I should do? My system is x86 not AMD64, but I don't see that should make a difference: gentoo bin # equery belongs /var/lib/xkb [ Searching for file(s) /var/lib/xkb in *... ] x11-apps/xkbcomp-1.0.2 (/var/lib/xkb) gentoo bin # equery belongs /usr/share/X11/xkb/ [ Searching for file(s) /usr/share/X11/xkb/ in *... ] gentoo bin # Nothing is recorded as creating /usr/share/X11/xkb but /var/lib/xkb was installed from xkbcomp - try remerge that, then emerge xorg-server again alan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list