On Friday 26 June 2009 22:02:54 Mark Knecht wrote: > On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Alan McKinnon<alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Friday 26 June 2009 21:05:01 Mark Knecht wrote: > >> So the weirdness continues. mesa built but then xorg-server failed > >> with the same failure: > >> > >> > >> * >>> SetUID: [chmod go-r] /usr/bin/Xorg ... > >> [ ok ] > >> > >> Switching to xorg-x11 OpenGL interface...ln: creating symbolic link > >> `./libglx.so': File exists > >> !!! Error: Failed to create /lib/libglx.so > > > > Looks like you have a file collision between xorg-server and mesa, which > > is odd as those packages get a lot of testing. > > > > Anything on bugs.gentoo.org? > > I haven't looked there yet but I will. > > I'm on a mission here. For this machine I want emerge -e @system to > install NOTHING having to do with X11. After I get to that point, > depclean'ed, revdep'ed, eix-test-obsoleted, then I'm going back to > installing X from scratch. I've just gotten past the emerge -e @system > part now. > > I'm sort of surprised the openssh shows up as part of @system, or it's > getting pulled in somehow, and its default flags are dragging in X.
USE="X" pulls in x11-apps/xauth so you likely want to disable that flag. > > Sort of anal I suppose but these machine have been neglected for the > last couple of years being stuck with old drivers & old kernels. If > I'm going to try and get the newest ati-drivers working I feel like I > sort of owe it to those developers (and myself) to have as few issues > hanging out as possible. Look at it this way: the only known factor that leads to easy-maintainable and sane systems for all is analness coming from the top :-) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
