Kevin O'Gorman writes:
> On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 8:20 PM, Kevin O'Gorman <[email protected]>
wrote:
> > I thank you for the expert advice. I'm doing the emerge now, but even
> > if it succeeds, I'm worried that the xorg-server will still own this
> > file, since portageq seems to see that it does. This seems inherently
> > wrong.
Well, it is indeed.
> > Sigh. I'm too far along to flinch now, so if this emerges, I'll
> > probably restart X.
> >
> > Wish me luck.
I do, but I do not believe bad things might happen.
> Hmm. Even with the FEATURES option from the suggestion, I get exactly
> the same error message. I cut-and-pasted it, but I wonder if it's
> spelled right?
It is. But I forgot about the protect-owned feature. I thought -collision-
protect would act stronger and imply it, but apparently it does not. So,
'FEATURES=-protect-owned emerge ati-drivers' might have worked better. If
not, 'FEATURES="-collision-protect -protect-owned" emerge ati-drivers' would
have worked in any case.
> I'm going to try just deleting (well, renaming) the file, hoping that
> this will work...
Yes, that's okay. After all, the file is still there, it's just now being
generated by the ati-driver. I wouldn't worry too much.
Wonko
