From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Kou46-0005KY-5t for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 12 Oct 2008 06:04:30 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8512DE0271; Sun, 12 Oct 2008 06:04:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de (hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.2.20]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59DB5E0271 for ; Sun, 12 Oct 2008 06:04:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id 8BC4C21C934 for ; Sun, 12 Oct 2008 08:04:26 +0200 (CEST) Received: from tu-clausthal.de (poseidon [139.174.2.21]) by hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79D2221C933 for ; Sun, 12 Oct 2008 08:04:26 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [139.174.197.94] (account wevah HELO energy.localnet) by tu-clausthal.de (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.2.8) with ESMTPSA id 37858722 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 12 Oct 2008 08:04:26 +0200 From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Painted into a corner: avahi and mDNSResponder Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2008 08:04:22 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.10.90 (Linux/2.6.26.6r4; KDE/4.1.68; x86_64; ; ) References: <7bef1f890810111930p6c26b53eq1d057da5c6a6635c@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7bef1f890810111930p6c26b53eq1d057da5c6a6635c@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.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: <200810120804.22569.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> X-Virus-Scanned: by PureMessage V5.4 at tu-clausthal.de X-Archives-Salt: 0113483c-e784-4136-bc11-60d85d70123f X-Archives-Hash: 9b192a3b8676fd7554bded506370705b On Sonntag 12 Oktober 2008, Alan E. Davis wrote: > Almost perpetually, the following packages or their versions are > blocking. I have run emerge -e system several times. Some other > problems were cleared up, and this > avahi--mDNSResponder/mdnsresponder-compat whatever it all is, just > keeps coming back even when solved by some skullduggery. I've removed > both of them at one time or another. > > [blocks B ] net-dns/avahi ("net-dns/avahi" is blocking > net-misc/mDNSResponder-107.6-r5) > > [blocks B ] net-misc/mDNSResponder ("net-misc/mDNSResponder" is > blocking net-dns/avahi-0.6.23) > > I guess the problem is that I am running gnome and also have two or > three different versions/slots of kde installed. I suppose, then, > it's remarkable that only these blocks are showing up? > > Can someone lend a hand on this? Anything I do is little more than > blind tinkering. > > Alan set the avahi useflag, unmerge mdnsresponder, emerge avahi.