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From: Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-6.8 --> xorg-7.0 --> 6.8 --> 7.0 impossible?
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 08:28:40 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49bf44f10607070828u1258991dl604c89aa44943ea7@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44AD670F.6080607@gentoo.org>

> > I had some trouble upgrading to xorg-x11-7.0 due to a mouse issue so I
> > downgraded back to xorg-x11-6.8 via the -K emerge option.  Now I'm
> > trying to get back to 7.0 to test the fix and I can't seem to do it.
> > After unmerging 6.8, 7.0 emerges just fine without or without the -K
> > option.  Trying to startxfce4 after that results in an xinit error and
> > there are other "missing file" X errors before I get to the command
> > line (I use gdm).
> >
> > Something must be out of order, but I don't know enough about xorg to
> > determine what.  'emerge -avDuN world' doesn't come up with anything.
> > Does this issue make sense to anyone or do I need to come up with some
> > specific error messages?
>
> Yeah, the problem is that you never uninstalled the modular packages
> when you downgraded. The easiest way to proceed right now is `emerge -e
> xorg-x11`.

Would 'emerge -eK world' be OK so I don't have to recompile?

- Grant
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  reply	other threads:[~2006-07-07 15:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-06 17:34 [gentoo-user] xorg-6.8 --> xorg-7.0 --> 6.8 --> 7.0 impossible? Grant
2006-07-06 19:39 ` Donnie Berkholz
2006-07-07 15:28   ` Grant [this message]
2006-07-07 17:09     ` Richard Fish
2006-07-07 21:44       ` Grant
2006-07-07 17:48     ` Donnie Berkholz

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