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From: Sean <tech.junk@×××××××.net>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] emerge --newuse world error
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 12:52:43
Message-Id: 4547469F.9010903@verizon.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] emerge --newuse world error by "Hemmann
1 Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
2 > On Sunday 29 October 2006 03:32, sean wrote:
3 >> I received the following error running emerge --newuse world.
4 >> Would anyone be able to explain and advise on how to cure?
5 >> I was seeing this error recently, even before my recent upgrade of gcc.
6 >>
7 >> emerge --newuse world
8 >>
9 >> >>> --newuse implies --update... adding --update to options.
10 >>
11 >> Calculating world dependencies /
12 >> emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "media-video/nvidia-glx".
13 >> (dependency required by "media-libs/smpeg-0.4.4-r8" [ebuild])
14 >>
15 >>
16 >
17 > emerge nvidia-driver and retry.
18
19 Well as you said I emerged nvidia-driver and that has now killed X for
20 me. Tried following the Gentoo nvidia guide again, but unable to get X
21 up again.
22
23 Things I have noticed.
24 1) In Dmesg Linux version lists 'Linux version 2.6.16-gentoo-r9' and
25 (gcc version 3.4.6 (Gentoo 3.4.6-r1, ssp-3.4.5-1.0, pie-8.7.9)
26
27 Since I just upgraded GCC to 4 should this be GCC 4 now, does this mean
28 the kernel needs to be compiled again?
29
30 2) Also in Dmesg 'nvidia: version magic '2.6.16-gentoo-r9 SMP gcc-4.1'
31 should be '2.6.16-gentoo-r9 SMP gcc-3.4'
32 This line starts popping up several times during the rest of Dmesg.
33
34 3) emerge --update --deep --newuse --world;revdep-rebuild;revdep-rebuild
35 keeps stating similar to what I wrote originally up above
36
37 emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "media-video/nvidia-glx".
38 (dependency required by "media-libs/libsdl-1.2.11" [ebuild)
39
40 NOTE: There is no nvidia-glx in portage.
41
42 4) Startx fails with the following
43 FATAL: Error inserting nvidia
44 (lib/modules/2.6.16-gentoo-r9/video/nvidia.ko): Invalid module format
45 (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to load the NVIDIA kernel module!
46 (EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting ***
47 (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usuable configuration.
48
49 Fatal server error:
50 no screen found
51 XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0"
52 after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
53
54 NOTE: I have not changed my xorg.conf.
55
56 Thanks for any help,
57 Sean
58
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