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On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> On Sunday 16 May 2010 18:18:09 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: |
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>> > On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@×××××.com> |
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>> <major snippage> |
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>> > Oh, and one more thing showed up last night. I reemerged udev, and |
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>> noticed |
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>> > that the ebuild printed a message to the effect that if it doesn't work, |
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>> I |
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>> > should try emerging hal first. Leaving aside the non-effective |
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>> language, I |
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>> > tried that and although hal is installed, I can no longer build it. |
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>> This |
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>> > may turn out to be the most important thing. It turns out I can't |
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>> compile |
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>> > the latest wireshark either. Maybe something is hosed deep down. It |
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>> may |
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>> > be time to go down the "emptytree" road again, but it took 2 weeks last |
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>> > time, and was a major PITA. |
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>> I don't know if you have been following the "libpng12 is missing" thread, |
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>> but |
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>> for good measure you may want to try lafilefixer --justfixit and revdep- |
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>> rebuild -p -v -i a number of times first. On two machines of mine (x86) |
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>> there |
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>> was no problem. On another (amd64) I had to go through the pain of emerge |
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>> -e |
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>> world. |
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>> I just did the lafixer thing and was astonished at how many .la files it |
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> said it was |
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> fixing. Seems like my system should have been dead outright.... |
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> Now I'm off to a bunch of revdep-rebuilds. |
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> Hope this works, because I really *do not* want to emerge -e world (again). |
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> Well, it was an interesting excercise, but I'm no closer to a runnable Xorg |
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(it won't start at all as long as I have |
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InputDevice "mouse" |
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in there. I think I'll start exploring the ideas around what happens when |
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you have Xorg -hal, as I do. |
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Actually, I did that, and problem SOLVED!. |
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Kevin O'Gorman, PhD |
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