Re: [gentoo-user] [urgent] X11 fails after reboot (using a new X11)

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> On 29 Jan, Justin wrote:
>   
>> Helmut Jarausch schrieb:
>>     
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> after reboot X11 fails with
>>> (II) Initializing extension GLX
>>> (EE) config/hal: couldn't initialise context: (null) ((null))
>>>
>>> I have 
>>> x11-base/xorg-x11-7.4
>>> x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r1
>>> installed on a x86-64 machine.
>>>
>>> Has anybody an idea what's going on?
>>>
>>> Many thanks for your help,
>>> Helmut.
>>>
>>>       
>> Can give some more infos please, USE etc?
>>
>>     
>  Installed versions:  1.5.3-r1(09:46:41 01/29/09)(hal input_devices_evdev input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse ipv6 nptl sdl video_cards_nv xorg
> x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-180.22
>
> I vaguely remember having removed the 'hal' use flag for some time.
> Now, I have reinstalled x11-base/xorg-server after adding 'hal' to my
> /etc/make.conf
> But probably there are further x11 packages which need to be reemerged.
>
> But on an another machine I'm running these x11 versions without 'hal'.
> So, there must be a different cause of the problem.
>
> Thanks,
> Helmut.
>
>
>   

Maybe try emerge -uvDNp world and see if the USE flags are changed.  If
they have, remove the p and let it rebuild.  The -N is the big part here.

Dale

:-)  :-)