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About a week ago, my Gentoo box was in a bad state where there were some |
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packages that would not install, so I was carefully emerging what I could |
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and filed a bug about one in particular that I could not emerge. |
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Then I got a new kernel, 2.6.32-gentoo-r7, and I booted from it. Eeeek. No |
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X11 at all. |
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The logs informed me about some things to do, and I did them, re-emerging a |
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number of things. I paid particular attention to emerging anything with x11 |
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or xorg in its name. |
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Long wait. |
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I got to a point somewhere in there where X11 started, but would recognize |
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neither keyboard nor mouse. |
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I kept going. The keyboard started to work. I could actually log in, but |
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that's not all that useful without a mouse. |
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Then I started getting complaints about USE flags needed to make some |
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particular packages support some other packages. I did those too. |
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Now I'm at the state where "emerge -aDNvu" denies there's any work to do, |
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and revdep-rebuild reports health. |
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Still no mouse. |
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Fortunately, I have a laptop that can ssh into the box and I can work with |
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it, but it's still essentially headless. |
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Anybody run into this state recently? |
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If there's a quick fix, I'd rather not make another bug. |
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Kevin O'Gorman, PhD |
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