From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MUynU-0000Sx-39 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 26 Jul 2009 08:09:32 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3A60BE0351; Sun, 26 Jul 2009 08:09:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f181.google.com (mail-yw0-f181.google.com [209.85.211.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1747DE0351 for ; Sun, 26 Jul 2009 08:09:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywh11 with SMTP id 11so248599ywh.32 for ; Sun, 26 Jul 2009 01:09:29 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=OspFhWnG7nA3IyKG6alPuaySJ1rrvZyuA3SLgF3tsCA=; b=g8ttd7XVz55vlK71B27E6K5JFe3J1V7JvSrdWLahlvQBXjhh+ogHJ7HFbu1j2YGcpw gdSO1oi5uaeLT0quM5z3uOK/HOaQrZkAy6bLAt6QW2eqX9lc/1SFw1R2v5sFDUTaJ779 /9QWY+U/8YeN1DO+u8W9t68QtZb/5mdjEAeLo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :message-id; b=C5+nYh+d5RorZSSNHz3jqnTFBrqa+YxX5QqVGWDvLGC98cD12te+qkwBScX0l1cTCw hroAC/+N3hawCydZCQVlxSs2nWiB3t/O8a12Pg4ZlF0PEil9a7H8NwhIE+O6KKn0kI9m Rs38zppbJ4xIlDDc/rxElZzvXS+qmsUW/HxW0= Received: by 10.151.142.5 with SMTP id u5mr8647504ybn.177.1248595769754; Sun, 26 Jul 2009 01:09:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet ([196.210.202.145]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 21sm2364043ywh.15.2009.07.26.01.09.28 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 26 Jul 2009 01:09:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Where to start with this kind of X problem Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 10:08:03 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.4 (Linux/2.6.30-gentoo-r4; KDE/4.2.4; x86_64; ; ) References: <87skgk8u83.fsf@newsguy.com> <87k51w8sqd.fsf@newsguy.com> In-Reply-To: <87k51w8sqd.fsf@newsguy.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: <200907261008.03130.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 89ce25fc-3c69-42c3-b2d9-fc7d622f6609 X-Archives-Hash: 9df38ac7083a762392c0a5e6c06792b9 On Saturday 25 July 2009 21:31:22 Harry Putnam wrote: > Harry Putnam writes: > > How can I have all these module problems but have no trouble booting > > as my regular user? > > > > It must be something else causing the error? I'm not understanding > > why one user can startx but not another on the same hardware and same > > .initrc file. > > Whooops ... I mislead any prespective readers. > It turns out even my regular user cannot startx. Its been a while > since I left X or rebooted so I just assumbed the regular user could > still startx. > > NOT SO... > > I see several x11 related items were installed recently in updates. > reader > qlop --list|grep ' Jul '|grep x11 > Sat Jul 4 08:22:29 2009 >>> x11-misc/util-macros-1.2.2 > Sat Jul 4 08:23:25 2009 >>> x11-proto/inputproto-1.5.1 > Sat Jul 4 08:23:37 2009 >>> x11-proto/dri2proto-2.1 > Sat Jul 4 08:24:04 2009 >>> x11-apps/xfs-1.1.0-r1 > Sat Jul 4 08:24:25 2009 >>> x11-libs/libXinerama-1.0.3 > Sat Jul 4 08:29:53 2009 >>> x11-misc/xkeyboard-config-1.6 > Sat Jul 4 08:41:05 2009 >>> x11-proto/glproto-1.4.10 > Sat Jul 4 08:50:49 2009 >>> x11-libs/cairo-1.8.8 > Sat Jul 4 08:54:21 2009 >>> x11-libs/pango-1.24.3 > Sat Jul 4 09:40:38 2009 >>> x11-base/xorg-server-1.6.1.902 > Sat Jul 4 09:42:44 2009 >>> x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev-2.2.2 > Tue Jul 14 08:22:54 2009 >>> x11-libs/pango-1.24.4 > Tue Jul 14 11:19:40 2009 >>> x11-base/xorg-server-1.6.2-r1 > > Some of them matching the things I got errors about.. > kbd input and 2 versions of the full server itself. I don't see that you rebuilt the kdb, nv and mouse X drivers -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com