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Kevin O'Gorman wrote: |
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> About a week ago, my Gentoo box was in a bad state where there were |
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> some packages that would not install, so I was carefully emerging what |
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> I could and filed a bug about one in particular that I could not emerge. |
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> Then I got a new kernel, 2.6.32-gentoo-r7, and I booted from it. |
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> Eeeek. No X11 at all. |
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> The logs informed me about some things to do, and I did them, |
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> re-emerging a number of things. I paid particular attention to |
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> emerging anything with x11 or xorg in its name. |
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> Long wait. |
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> I got to a point somewhere in there where X11 started, but would |
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> recognize neither keyboard nor mouse. |
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> I kept going. The keyboard started to work. I could actually log in, |
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> but that's not all that useful without a mouse. |
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> Then I started getting complaints about USE flags needed to make some |
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> particular packages support some other packages. I did those too. |
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> Now I'm at the state where "emerge -aDNvu" denies there's any work to |
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> do, and revdep-rebuild reports health. |
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> Still no mouse. |
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> Fortunately, I have a laptop that can ssh into the box and I can work |
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> with it, but it's still essentially headless. |
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> Anybody run into this state recently? |
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> If there's a quick fix, I'd rather not make another bug. |
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> -- |
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> Kevin O'Gorman, PhD |
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Have you tried this: |
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emerge -1a $(qlist -I -C x11-drivers/) |
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I have upgraded my kernel before without rebuilding these but they are |
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small and only take a few minutes. Your mileage may vary. |
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The mouse drivers should be in that list. If not, then something is |
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missing in your set up. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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