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dnlt0hn5ntzhbqkv51 wrote: |
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> 1. The emerge stoped at one point because the uninstall failed to remove |
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> an obscure library (perhaps /var/lib/xkb ? sorry, I should have noted |
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> it). But emerge identified the directory and told me to delete it. A |
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> restart allowed successful completion. |
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This directory was formerly under configuration protection so we have to |
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tell the user to delete it manually. |
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> 2. Before starting, I renamed /etc/X11 to /etc/X11old so that any |
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> accumulated junk would be out of the picture, and so that the new |
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> xorg.conf.example file would be clean. Heh, it doesn't build a new |
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> xorg.conf.example file, so I copied over the old file and everything |
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> worked - except for the rgb file. |
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Yeah, there's a bug for this -- modular X currently lacks a rule to |
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create it. |
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> 3. My first xmessage complained of not understanding "black". So I |
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> emerged rgb, edited the xorg.conf file, and repointed it. |
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> RgbPath "/usr/share/X11/rgb" |
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You should be able to comment out RgbPath |
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> 4. I routinely use xterm, xmessage, and xkill - all needed to be |
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> emerged. Problem here was that eix and eix -S didn't find them, but |
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> emerge did. |
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Perhaps you haven't regenerated eix's cache lately? |
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> 5. revdep-rebuild found the missing libXaw.so.8, but crashed during |
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> re-emergence (bad order, and something else that I did not understand). |
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> So I emerged them one at a time in a different order, and everything |
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> worked except for the kde office applications. |
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If you just want the libXaw.so.8 back, emerge libXaw with USE=xprint. |
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Thanks for your detailed report, |
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Donnie |