Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Joseph <syscon780@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] system is trying to install mask package
Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2014 23:28:32
Message-Id: 20140206232441.GN4127@syscon7.ed.shawcable.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] system is trying to install mask package by Stroller
1 On 02/06/14 21:20, Stroller wrote:
2 >
3 >On Thu, 6 February 2014, at 8:33 pm, Joseph <syscon780@×××××.com> wrote:
4 >> …
5 >> * Last emerge --sync was 45d 3h 42m 30s ago.
6 >> [ebuild r UD] x11-base/xorg-server-1.14.3-r2 [1.14.99.904] USE="ipv6 nptl suid udev xorg -dmx -doc -kdrive -minimal (-selinux)
7 >
8 >If I'm reading this correctly, you currently have x11-base/xorg-server-1.14.99.904 installed.
9 >
10 >Is this in the main tree?
11 >
12 >Is this marked as amd64 or ~amd64?
13 >
14 >Stroller.
15
16 I accidentally marked it ~amd64 I think new version of gdm requested unstable xorg-server, I have "auto-unmask" enabled.
17 I use "slim" as log-in and it did not show user name on log-in screen or password being typed. I know this was a problem with xorg-server, 1.14 or newer did not
18 work with my video card, so I needed to downgraded it to 1.13
19
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21 Joseph