Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -avt xfce4-meta; haven't got startxfce4. Help, please!

2010-02-10 Thread Alan Mackenzie
On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 02:39:14PM -0500, dhk wrote: Do you have xfce-base/xfdesktop installed? Try installing it. No, as it happens, I didn't. When I tried # emerge xfdesktop , the compiler threw a segfault. It does this reproducibly. Bother! I don't have any fancy C\(XX\)?FLAGS

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -avt xfce4-meta; haven't got startxfce4. Help, please!

2010-02-10 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 3:22 AM, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote: On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 02:39:14PM -0500, dhk wrote: Do you have xfce-base/xfdesktop installed?  Try installing it. No, as it happens, I didn't.  When I tried    # emerge xfdesktop , the compiler threw a segfault.  It does

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -avt xfce4-meta; haven't got startxfce4. Help, please!

2010-02-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 10 February 2010 17:33:46 Mark Knecht wrote: On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 3:22 AM, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote: On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 02:39:14PM -0500, dhk wrote: Do you have xfce-base/xfdesktop installed? Try installing it. No, as it happens, I didn't. When I tried

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -avt xfce4-meta; haven't got startxfce4. Help, please!

2010-02-10 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday 10 February 2010 17:33:46 Mark Knecht wrote: SNIP Is it just me? On a new install I always still to an emerge -e @world once I get to a working text based boot and I've done any modification to

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -avt xfce4-meta; haven't got startxfce4. Help, please!

2010-02-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 10 February 2010 18:37:00 Mark Knecht wrote: gcc rebuilds itself twice to ensure that the binary is built with the same version as the result, and verifies that the last two are bit-wise identical. Then building the toolchain, then building the rest of world gives you exactly

[gentoo-user] emerge -avt xfce4-meta; haven't got startxfce4. Help, please!

2010-02-09 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Gentoo, The Subject: just about says it all; following the instructions in The Xfce Configuration Guide, I did # emerge -avt xfce4-meta followed by $ echo exec startxfce4 ~/.xinitrc followed by $ startx. The X-server complained about not finding startxfce4. A quick find

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -avt xfce4-meta; haven't got startxfce4. Help, please!

2010-02-09 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote: Hi, Gentoo, The Subject: just about says it all; following the instructions in The Xfce Configuration Guide, I did    # emerge -avt xfce4-meta followed by    $ echo exec startxfce4 ~/.xinitrc followed by    $ startx.

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -avt xfce4-meta; haven't got startxfce4. Help, please!

2010-02-09 Thread Mark Knecht
firefly ~ # emerge -ep xfce4-meta | grep xfce | grep utils [ebuild R ] xfce-base/xfce-utils-4.6.1 firefly ~ # On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP firefly ~ # which startxfce4 /usr/bin/startxfce4 firefly ~ # equery belongs /usr/bin/startxfce4 [

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -avt xfce4-meta; haven't got startxfce4. Help, please!

2010-02-09 Thread dhk
Mark Knecht wrote: On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote: Hi, Gentoo, The Subject: just about says it all; following the instructions in The Xfce Configuration Guide, I did # emerge -avt xfce4-meta followed by $ echo exec startxfce4 ~/.xinitrc