Since I've found no way to make the machine run X and grown tired of the chase... I'm going to keep this vm as console only and it has functioning sendmail install working on it.
How to return to a console only setup? Although, I may have already screwed things up. I took a bright notion to uninstall everything with x11- in its name. Unmerged all lxde stuff too. Following that move, I ran revdep-rebuild... it said I had a consistent machine. I changed my make.conf USE= flags from X to -X so they look like this: USE="bindist gpm mbox -X -acl -alsa -cups -eds -fortran -ipv6 -kde -ldap" Removed 3 lxce pkgs from world file and made sure no other X items were in it. ran emerge -vuDNp world... and it appears emerge is wanting to start re-installing some X pkgs: How can I clean this up? (list of uninstalled pkgs posted at the end) ------- ------- ---=--- ------- ------- # emerge -vuDNp world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! The following USE changes are necessary to proceed: (see "package.use" in the portage(5) man page for more details) # required by x11-libs/gtk+-2.24.31-r1::gentoo # required by x11-libs/gtksourceview-2.10.5-r3::gentoo # required by dev-python/pygtksourceview-2.10.1-r1::gentoo # required by dev-vcs/git-2.11.0::gentoo[python,gtk] # required by @selected # required by @world (argument) >=x11-libs/cairo-1.14.6 X # required by x11-libs/gtk+-2.24.31-r1::gentoo # required by x11-libs/gtksourceview-2.10.5-r3::gentoo # required by dev-python/pygtksourceview-2.10.1-r1::gentoo # required by dev-vcs/git-2.11.0::gentoo[python,gtk] # required by @selected # required by @world (argument) >=x11-libs/gdk-pixbuf-2.36.0 X !!! The ebuild selected to satisfy "x11-libs/gtk+:3" has unmet requirements. - x11-libs/gtk+-3.22.4::gentoo USE="introspection -X (-aqua) -broadway -cloudprint -colord -cups -examples -test -vim-syntax -wayland -xinerama" The following REQUIRED_USE flag constraints are unsatisfied: any-of ( aqua wayland X ) The above constraints are a subset of the following complete expression: any-of ( aqua wayland X ) xinerama? ( X ) (dependency required by "gnome-extra/polkit-gnome-0.105-r1::gentoo" [installed]) (dependency required by "sys-auth/polkit-0.113-r1::gentoo[gtk]" [installed]) (dependency required by "sys-auth/consolekit-1.1.0-r1::gentoo[policykit]" [installed]) (dependency required by "sys-auth/pambase-20150213::gentoo[consolekit]" [installed]) (dependency required by "net-misc/openssh-7.3_p1-r8::gentoo[pam]" [ebuild]) (dependency required by "virtual/ssh-0::gentoo[-minimal]" [installed]) (dependency required by "@system" [set]) (dependency required by "@world" [argument]) ------- ------- ---=--- ------- ------- List of unmerged pkgs... (may have a few dups in there) ------- ------- ---=--- ------- ------- 1481323166: === Unmerging... (x11-themes/adwaita-icon-theme-3.22.0) 1481323199: === Unmerging... (x11-themes/gnome-themes-standard-3.22.2) 1481323231: === Unmerging... (x11-themes/gtk-engines-adwaita-3.20.2) 1481323250: === Unmerging... 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