[gentoo-user] system is trying to install mask package

[gentoo-user] system is trying to install mask package

[Joseph]

In /etc/portage/package.mask I have masked:
=x11-base/xorg-server-1.14.3-r2

but emerge is trying to install it, why?

emerge -avq xorg-server
 * Last emerge --sync was 45d 3h 42m 30s ago.
[ebuild  r  UD] x11-base/xorg-server-1.14.3-r2 [1.14.99.904] USE="ipv6 nptl suid udev xorg -dmx -doc -kdrive -minimal (-selinux) -static-libs -tslib -xnest -xvfb" 

The following mask changes are necessary to proceed:
 (see "package.unmask" in the portage(5) man page for more details)
# required by @__auto_slot_operator_replace_installed__ (argument)
# /etc/portage/package.mask:
=x11-base/xorg-server-1.14.3-r2

What is:
# required by @__auto_slot_operator_replace_installed__ (argument)

-- 
Joseph

Re: [gentoo-user] system is trying to install mask package

[Joseph]

On 02/06/14 13:33, Joseph wrote:
>In /etc/portage/package.mask I have masked:
>=x11-base/xorg-server-1.14.3-r2
>
>but emerge is trying to install it, why?
>
>emerge -avq xorg-server
> * Last emerge --sync was 45d 3h 42m 30s ago.
>[ebuild  r  UD] x11-base/xorg-server-1.14.3-r2 [1.14.99.904] USE="ipv6 nptl suid udev xorg -dmx -doc -kdrive -minimal (-selinux) -static-libs -tslib -xnest -xvfb"
>
>The following mask changes are necessary to proceed:
> (see "package.unmask" in the portage(5) man page for more details)
># required by @__auto_slot_operator_replace_installed__ (argument)
># /etc/portage/package.mask:
>=x11-base/xorg-server-1.14.3-r2
>
>What is:
># required by @__auto_slot_operator_replace_installed__ (argument)

Solved.
gdm display manager was pulling xorg-server-1.14
I unmerged "gdm" 

-- 
Joseph

Re: [gentoo-user] system is trying to install mask package

[Stroller]

On Thu, 6 February 2014, at 8:33 pm, Joseph <syscon780@gmail.com> wrote:
> …
> * Last emerge --sync was 45d 3h 42m 30s ago.
> [ebuild  r  UD] x11-base/xorg-server-1.14.3-r2 [1.14.99.904] USE="ipv6 nptl suid udev xorg -dmx -doc -kdrive -minimal (-selinux) 

If I'm reading this correctly, you currently have x11-base/xorg-server-1.14.99.904 installed.

Is this in the main tree?

Is this marked as amd64 or ~amd64?

Stroller.

Re: [gentoo-user] system is trying to install mask package

[Joseph]

On 02/06/14 21:20, Stroller wrote:
>
>On Thu, 6 February 2014, at 8:33 pm, Joseph <syscon780@gmail.com> wrote:
>> …
>> * Last emerge --sync was 45d 3h 42m 30s ago.
>> [ebuild  r  UD] x11-base/xorg-server-1.14.3-r2 [1.14.99.904] USE="ipv6 nptl suid udev xorg -dmx -doc -kdrive -minimal (-selinux)
>
>If I'm reading this correctly, you currently have x11-base/xorg-server-1.14.99.904 installed.
>
>Is this in the main tree?
>
>Is this marked as amd64 or ~amd64?
>
>Stroller.

I accidentally marked it ~amd64 I think new version of gdm requested unstable xorg-server, I have "auto-unmask" enabled. 
I use "slim" as log-in and it did not show user name on log-in screen or password being typed. I know this was a problem with xorg-server,  1.14 or newer did not 
work with my video card, so I needed to downgraded it to 1.13

-- 
Joseph