Michael Higgins <li...@evolone.org> wrote: > Heh. Let me google that *exact error string* for you, by way of > illustration...
Thanks, Michael - I generally turn to google first. It's been a tough day, and I appreciate you pointing this out to me. I ran into another snag, this time with x11-libs/libXext-1.0.4 - it would not compile with x11-proto/xextproto-7.0.5. But downgrading to x11-proto/xextproto-7.0.4 fixed that! When I saw that one fail, I thought to myself "this is gonna be a long night"... ha. But happily, everything compiled in the end, and xorg-x11 is now installed. I will see the state of things tomorrow when I get into the office. Keith Dart <ke...@dartworks.biz> wrote: > The close-source binaries like Mathematica are usually the problem. > They almost always lag behind the current open-source offering and only > support older, stable versions of libraries. So if you really want to > run that I would recommend that you stick with stable arch and > re-compile and/or re-install your base system. You have /home on a > separate partition, right? Keith - thanks for the thoughts. As I reiterated before, I am not arguing that Mathematica isn't the source of the problem. Other than Mathematica crashing X, I had no other problems with X since the upgrade to libxcb-1.4 and xorg-server-1.6. So my action to downgrade and revert to the previous configuration shouldn't be taken to mean that the upgrade was crappy - it just doesn't seem to agree with the proprietary software I am currently running. I would much rather upgrade Mathematica, but that is not an option for me at this time. Thankfully, I was able to remove X and reinstall it based on the previous versions of the libraries.... I don't yet know whether this resolved my Mathematica issue - I will test tomorrow. But I will investigate the install script for Mathematica and see what it does. Denis
