dnlt0hn5ntzhbqkv51 wrote: > 1. The emerge stoped at one point because the uninstall failed to remove > an obscure library (perhaps /var/lib/xkb ? sorry, I should have noted > it). But emerge identified the directory and told me to delete it. A > restart allowed successful completion.
This directory was formerly under configuration protection so we have to tell the user to delete it manually. > 2. Before starting, I renamed /etc/X11 to /etc/X11old so that any > accumulated junk would be out of the picture, and so that the new > xorg.conf.example file would be clean. Heh, it doesn't build a new > xorg.conf.example file, so I copied over the old file and everything > worked - except for the rgb file. Yeah, there's a bug for this -- modular X currently lacks a rule to create it. > 3. My first xmessage complained of not understanding "black". So I > emerged rgb, edited the xorg.conf file, and repointed it. > > RgbPath "/usr/share/X11/rgb" You should be able to comment out RgbPath > 4. I routinely use xterm, xmessage, and xkill - all needed to be > emerged. Problem here was that eix and eix -S didn't find them, but > emerge did. Perhaps you haven't regenerated eix's cache lately? > 5. revdep-rebuild found the missing libXaw.so.8, but crashed during > re-emergence (bad order, and something else that I did not understand). > So I emerged them one at a time in a different order, and everything > worked except for the kde office applications. If you just want the libXaw.so.8 back, emerge libXaw with USE=xprint. Thanks for your detailed report, Donnie
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