On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Mark Knecht<markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Alan McKinnon<alan.mckin...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> On Saturday 27 June 2009 19:10:43 Mark Knecht wrote: >>> On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 2:34 AM, Alan McKinnon<alan.mckin...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> > On Saturday 27 June 2009 06:24:12 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? >>> >> >>> >> Unfortunately it seem that there are bug reports on this and more >>> >> unfortunately they have apparently been going on nearly a year now. >>> >> It's not a Gentoo thing specifically as there are Ubuntu, Debian and >>> >> other distros with reports in their forums. >>> >> >>> >> There was a possible by hand fix for it but I'll need to look at that >>> >> over the weekend to see if it makes sense on this machine. >>> >> >>> >> Bummer. I hate banging my head up against a wall made of problems no >>> >> one seems to be fixing. >>> >> >>> >> http://bugs.gentoo.org/247685 >>> > >>> > The fix seems (in principle at least) to be brain-dead easy: >>> > >>> > - all ebuilds that merge opengl files should put them in distinct >>> > locations by name to avoid collisions >>> > - the contents of /usr/lib64/opengl/xorg-x11/extensions/ should be >>> > symlinks with a sane default put there by xorg-server and modified by >>> > eselect >>> > >>> > Nikos's comments are especially sane in that thread. Perhaps he'll come >>> > along, see this thread and help you out further. >>> > >>> > I suspect that the temporary workaround will be to delete a symlink and >>> > emerge stuff, then remember to always do this on every future re-emerge >>> > >>> > -- >>> > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com >>> >>> In concept it does seem fairly straight forward, but to some extent >>> I'm not clear why my previous attempts didn't work, unless the >>> questionable files remained behind. What I attempted to do was >>> completely remove everything X, but I probably didn't specifically >>> remove the stuff in /usr/lib/opengl/xorg-x11/extensions. I was >>> expecting the emerge to do that. >> >> According to the bug report you mentioned earlier, the ebuild is attempting >> to >> perform eselect too late in the process, which fails, and the ebuild >> immediately exits. >> >> So it's not surprising that dodgy files are left behind which you must remove >> manually. >> >> -- >> alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com >> >> > So I'm little confused by a couple of the postings in that report. I > did emerge -C glproto/eselect/mesa/xorg-server and then made sure > there was nothing left in those directories at all. Should I emerge > eselect, manually do a select, and then emerge the rest of the files? > > Or emerge eselect and maybe mesa, do the eselect, then xorg-server? > > mesa is currently building. glproto created > /usr/lib/opengl/xorg-x11/include, but the other two directories are > there yet. > > Cheers, > Mark >
With mesa building in screen I tried the eselect step. It completes normally but the extensions directory isn't there yet so there's nothing to check. [detached] myth12 ~ # eselect opengl list Available OpenGL implementations: [1] xorg-x11 * myth12 ~ # eselect opengl set 1 Switching to xorg-x11 OpenGL interface... done myth12 ~ # ls -al /usr/lib/opengl/xorg-x11/ total 12 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jun 27 10:20 . drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jun 27 10:20 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 27 10:20 include myth12 ~ #
