Problems with 2005.0 and kde: no sessions, no glib-1.2.10

[bernd_b]

Am i the only one?
No success with the search makes me questioning this:

1. I cannot install all of kde with the packages delivered by cd (Version 2005.0, athlon-xp)

I can do

emerge -k kdebase

but

emerge -k kdemultimedia

for example tries to download the glib-1.2.10. O.K. I can do this with another gentoo on another partition, but shouldn't a stage 3 installation and the package cd run without any online connection? I reinstalled 2005.0 without adding any USE-Flags as recommended at some places here but this didn't help

2. Using kdm as Displaymanager shows no session, only failsafe is chooseable. Changing the entry DISPLAYMAMAGER in /etc/rc.conf from kdm to gdm shows gdm after boot with all possible x-session (gnome and kde)

3. Just another question/ proposal:
Wouldn't it be useful to add the documentations about installing X, KDE and Gnome to the handbook?

[kabage]

1. you would think (did you change the portage snapshot by emerge sync or something?)
If you didnt change portage in anyway I would report that as a bug.

2. May need to manually adust that -- may have something to do with apparant dependencies not matching right on the cd.
In other words this maybe #1's fault.

3. I would think so. Report that as a bug. (especially if disk has those packages those documents should be available, probably alsa, udev would fit also)
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[bernd_b]

With some further try, I found my first problem already posted in the bug list.

Here is what worked with me:

- leaving the portage-snapshot distributed from cd
- downloading a "glib-1.2.10.tar.gz" from somewhere and copying it to the distfiles-directory

makes

emerge -k kde

running without further complains.

Next release, next chance i quess....

[kabage]

I seen someone else with this similar problem, so may it will help them.

Thats the way to gumshoe.
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