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From: Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 screwup
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2006 19:48:24
Message-Id: 44A81C4C.6070004@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 screwup by "Matthew R. Lee"
1 Matthew R. Lee wrote:
2 > is done. I wasn't convinced, however I tried rebooting. No X, so I logged
3 > in and issued 'startx', nothing so I checked '/usr/bin/startx', it's not
4 > there, clearly it hadn't installed x So back to xorg-x11-6.8.2.-r8. I've
5
6 This is a really weird issue that's been coming up, where the packages
7 are "installed" but files are missing. What filesystem(s) are you using?
8
9 > tried another emerge --sync to see if that would fix the problem but no joy.
10 > So the question is, how do I force portage to down load and recompile the
11 > packages from scratch?
12
13 You could try `emerge -ep xorg-x11`.
14
15 Thanks,
16 Donnie

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Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 screwup "Bo Ørsted Andresen" <bo.andresen@××××.dk>
Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 screwup "Bo Ørsted Andresen" <bo.andresen@××××.dk>