On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 12:48 -0500, Randy McMurchy wrote: > Which "dependency issues" would that be? The XCB stuff? There really > shouldn't be any dependency issues.
That's a poor way for me to describe a trivial problem. I use the package manager GIT (Guarded Installation Tool by Ingo Brückl http://home.wtal.de/ib/freisoft/ - not the git version control system) to keep all installed files from a package listed together for easy cross-referencing, backups, and deinstallation. But because of the way GIT works (by making a list of all files on your system before the install, comparing that against all files after the install, and storing a list of the newly added/changed files) it gets confused when you try to install multiple packages at once. So here I am in the middle of installing X when I find that before I can proceed, I need to install expat, freetype, fontconfig, and a few others. So I have to start a second instance of GIT to log the installation of those packages, and when I finally finished xorg it logged those other packages to the xorg package list as well. I had to remove the references to those other packages from the xorg installation log is all - a minor inconvenience. But it would have made the process marginally easier if I had known before starting X at all, that those other packages were prerequisites. I could have had them installed and logged into GIT before starting X itself. Meh... just complaining about it took me longer than dealing with it. > I ended up going into system BIOS, and choosing the "Fail Safe > Defaults" on the pages having to do with memory and bus clocking. > Then things worked. Then, I slowly started tweaking the settings > towards the "Optimized settings", until I got the crashes again. > Then I backed down to the last known good setting. No more issues. > > I'm not saying this is what's going on with your PC, I'm simply > relaying a personal experience. You may very well be on to something. The motherboard has been getting kind of flaky for the past year - the keyboard occasionally hangs and I have to unplug it and plug it back in, the onboard sound card (and a later added Soundblaster) will not record in stereo, and the second IDE hard disk periodically "disappears" from the BIOS until I power off, let it cool down, and restart. I already moved my critical operations to a replacement box; this is a play system I use exclusively for gaming and LFS tinkering. I'll try moving the BIOS settings back down to "safe" standards and see if that helps. Thanks for the suggestion! -- Peter B. Steiger Cheyenne, WY ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Free pop3 email with a spam filter. http://www.bluebottle.com/tag/5 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
