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