I ran into the exact same problem yesterday on my laptop. None of my packages were set to accept ~x86.
I tried playing around with /etc/portage/package.keywords and accepting different combinations of ~x86 for the packages and still couldn't resolve the blocking. I ended up unmerging xorg-x11 and other blocking packages (ati-drivers). Then re-emerging xorg-x11 and other packages. This solved all the blocking issues. I suspect the problem was that I hadn't fully updated the world in a few months. Several times I've synced and started an updated but not finished. Only to later sync and start another update. Hopefully manually removing the blocking packages will resolve the issue for you too. --Brandon > > On a recently intstalled 2004.3 from stage2. I just ran an --update > portage as emerge was encouraging me to do. Somehow with that and > other installations and removal I've done in the last 2 days. I've > arrived at sort of catch 22. > > I'm told some packages are blocking an --update world. When I check > it out I see: > > [blocks B ] <x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.0-r4 (is blocking > x11-base/opengl-update-2.1.1-r1) > > opengl-update is not installed. at least according to qpkg -I. And > because when I saw the message I thought I could move on by > uninstalling it. But the --update still fails. > > So, I thought I could just dodge it and update some of the other > stuff, but other packages are also being blocked by this situation. > > As a very new user... I'm not sure what to do about this > > Any recommendations? > > -- > [email protected] mailing list -- [email protected] mailing list
