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From: "John P. Burkett" <burkett@×××.edu>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Failed to install x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 12:53:22
Message-Id: 49EB1EAC.9050309@uri.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Failed to install x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 by Gregory Shearman
1 Gregory Shearman wrote:
2 > In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
3 >
4 >>>>> Completed installing ati-drivers-8.552-r2 into
5 >> *
6 >> * Searching all installed packages for file collisions...
7 >> *
8 >> * Press Ctrl-C to Stop
9 >> *
10 >> * x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5
11 >> * /usr/lib64/opengl/ati/extensions/libglx.so
12 >> *
13 >> * Package 'x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2' NOT merged due to file
14 >> * collisions. If necessary, refer to your elog messages for the whole
15 >> * content of the above message.
16 >>
17 >>>>> Failed to install x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2, Log file:
18 >
19 >> microway ~ # portageq owners / /usr/lib64/opengl/ati/extensions/libglx.so
20 >> x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5
21 >> /usr/lib64/opengl/ati/extensions/libglx.so
22 >>
23 >> Doing "portageq owners / /usr/lib64/opengl/ati/extensions/libglx.so"
24 >> gets the following response:
25 >> x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5
26 >> /usr/lib64/opengl/ati/extensions/libglx.so
27 >>
28 >> Suggestions for how to successfully "emerge -D -uav world" would be much
29 >> appreciated.
30 >
31 > G'day John,
32 >
33 > I had the problem on a 32 bit machine and just removed the offending
34 > file:
35 >
36 > rm /usr/lib/opengl/ati/extensions/libglx.so
37 >
38 > I then proceeded with the emerge of the ati-driver. It's discussed here:
39 >
40 > http://bugs.gentoo.org/247685
41 >
42 > I hope this helps.
43 >
44 Thanks, Gregory. Your suggestion pointed me in the right direction.
45 After removing libglx.so, I tried emerge again and got the following
46 message:
47
48 !!! Cannot write to '/usr/lib32/opengl/ati/extensions'.
49 !!! Please check permissions and directories for broken symlinks.
50
51 Eventually, I did
52 emerge -C ati-drivers
53 dispatch-conf
54 emerge -D -uav world
55
56 That seems to have taken care of the problems ... for now anyway.
57
58 John