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 1MxnQr-0000RH-Mu for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:53:18 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0FD8EE077E; Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:53:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f205.google.com (mail-ew0-f205.google.com [209.85.219.205]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9267E077E for ; Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:53:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy1 with SMTP id 1so2044243ewy.34 for ; Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:53:15 -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:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=el65DyC2FvxTcEPBIzL05Y2VY55RPSZmZTy+xh3DsEU=; b=ODywbCGAkxrQjVSF4kxT7YRYOkp5f1WW/s8hkNk142j4J089xpKTJy+Vy6Zy5HbCyD T5o641MP7p8+HnlFuFnljOVbsGHIujirloA5GawkmwFkmH2H0fHrFiE/55L89EuS9djM Caz8H3w9VT/NvZ3cGKB/tayk4Hi6/qq1bh48c= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=evjoYp0ETa4HWQ2OkR/Nid+ll6c8jc8Sk5q9DRTlY80eYBS8opQE8fA1jODC75/j1e teA+pm6sXaZmtdxWtyL8cNAs/u6V75qh4gUbRVrKwL4hDYqHENdcjI22Dsrmi2rwdtdM VDhdAcdP4PuZGCUhQIepSXrpJx7A5CLlUNX5A= Received: by 10.211.129.20 with SMTP id g20mr1551438ebn.12.1255463595141; Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:53:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet ([196.210.202.225]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 10sm39808eyd.36.2009.10.13.12.53.13 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:53:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: my xorg-server 1.6 seems a bit unstable - what am I doing wrong? Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:52:09 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.2 (Linux/2.6.31-gentoo-r2; KDE/4.3.2; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Denis References: <4AD4C011.4040701@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: 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 Message-Id: <200910132152.09910.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 621ae982-0ba5-44b2-b79b-32b66fb90eca X-Archives-Hash: 29a3ee7b3081750c7c8ec0a8c1dcbd3f On Tuesday 13 October 2009 21:04:54 Denis wrote: > Perhaps I should try this procedure on my home gentoo box first. > > Here are my USE flags: > > X aac aim alsa ao bash-completion bdf branding bzip2 cairo cdda cddb > cdparanoia cdr cpudetection djvu emacs encode exif firefox flac > foomaticdb gif glut graphics gs gtk ieee1394 imagemagick imlib java > javascript jbig jpeg jpeg2k kpathsea lame latex ldap libnotify libwww > lm_sensors mad mmx mmxext mng motif mp3 mpeg mplayer msn openal opengl > oss pdf plotutils png ppds preview-latex pstricks qt3support qt4 > quicktime rtc samba science sdl sensord smp sndfile spell sse sse2 > svga swat tcl tetex tiff tk truetype tta usb wavpack winbind wmp xcb xine > xml yahoo -dri -isdnlog -pppd At a minum you'll need to remove X cairo firefox gtk motif opengl pdf qt3support qt4 truetype scb There will be others, that's just obvious ones from a quick scan through. Also remove similarly obvious stuff from package.use The as Dale said, manually edit your world file to remove everything that is obviously X related. But first, verify that "emerge -avuND world" want to merge nothing, otherwise --depclean will complain. Then the fun starts: emerge -a --depclean and let it do whatever it wants. emerge -pvuNDt world and look closely at what X stuff it wants to pull in. See if it's a dependency thing or a USE flag thing, and deal with it. Eventually, emerge -pvuND world will not want to remerge anything, only rebuild stuff due to changed USE flags. --depclean again, rinse and repeat as many times as you have to (probably lots). When you have done all this, and it will take a day or three, you will no doubt realise that it was not worth the effort and you should have just reinstalled without X, or fixed the underlying problem. Excising X is like downgrading to stable from unstable - not worth the effort. Sorry, but them's the breaks :-) > When "world" is edited, should I leave make.conf be or do I also need > to remove all X-related USE flags from there? Remove the flags from make.conf and also from package.use -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com