Modular X server bugs, annoyances and solutions (Part 2)

eqlazer · Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2006 12:24 pm Post subject:

Hi, I am trying to install modular xorg, but there is a lot of problems. Allmost every new package it wants to emerge fails.

emerge xorg-x11

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Kaste · Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 8:52 pm Post subject:

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Kaste · Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 1:31 am Post subject:

@Manfred

The Problem was not going back to xorg 6.8 that worked fine but the problem is that it overwrites/removes certain libraries that belong to xorg7.0, which are not identical to 6.8, but portage doesn't get notified about this and therefore assumes they are intact although they aren't. Therefore my next stab at emerging xorg 7 was doomed to fail because a lot of the packages that i installed before going back were broken.

I am in no way advertising the emerge -e approach but what exactly is dangerous about it? It took ages and forever but this solution was exactly what a gentoo developer told me to do when i asked for help with my problem. I wasn't aware that it poses risks, could you please clarify on that.

Manfred · n00b Joined: 27 Apr 2004 Posts: 65

@Kaste

Ok, this sounds quite a bit different to what I understood the first time.
Well, first I would like to post more exactly what I did.

In order to emerge 7.0 (cf. the Gentoo Modular X.Org upgrade HowTo), I had to unmask the hard-masked packages, plus some additional packages.
So e.g. my /etc/package.keywords contains:

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Kaste · Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 12:32 am Post subject:

Manfred · n00b Joined: 27 Apr 2004 Posts: 65

Good morning, Kaste!

eNTi · Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 1:48 pm Post subject:

sorry, if i ask as something that might have been asked before, but:
1. gtk+ applications do not work any more:

nt@enti $ xchat-2
The program 'xchat-2' recieved an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation)'.
(Details. servial 318 error_code 1 request_code 154 minor_code 23)

2. i can't c/p anything from withing "Terminal" because it instantly terminates if i mark text with my mouse.
3. the mouse wheel isn't working as expected. xev shows it as button 6 and 7, which is the same as before, but i can't switch desktops (fluxbox), or use it to scroll in firefox or any other apps for that matter.
4. i can't start xterm as user any longer (but i can start Terminal and Eterm).
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tokugawa · Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 2:04 pm Post subject:

eNTi · Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 2:32 pm Post subject:

can anyone tell me what's going on?

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asiobob · Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 3:54 pm Post subject:

Riekr · n00b Joined: 21 Jun 2002 Posts: 47 Location: Italy

Exactly the same problem here.. and i'm in twm too

I first used xorg.conf from 6.8 rel but now (just to be sure it's not a config file issue) i'm using a new generated xorg.conf
I'm reemerging packages selectively using emerge -pve in the hope to discover what's not working.
Anyway firefox seems to work.
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asiobob · Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 4:13 pm Post subject:

I've doing an emerge world -uvaD
I noticed that there are x11 packages slated as "N" but have not been installed yet from my "migration" attempt.
I'm installing those now and I hope this fixes it

keikoz · n00b Joined: 14 Feb 2006 Posts: 29

Same pbl here ... A lot of gtk applications not working, and some strange behaviours (impossible to select objetct ont the desk by drawing with mouse).

Running Gnome 2.12.3

Riekr · n00b Joined: 21 Jun 2002 Posts: 47 Location: Italy

can it be some font maybe used by the incriminated apps? i see all fonts smaller and i'm missing some bold font (unread mails on gmail for example)
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Netolish · n00b Joined: 23 Mar 2006 Posts: 6 Location: Czech Republic

I am using FVWM window manager an d have the same problem - any GTK2 applications
does not work after upgrade to xorg7. Reemerge gtk dosen not help. But I have tried
change windowmanager to TWM and ... bingo everything works fine.
I know it is not "the right" solution. I would also like to return back to FVWM. But may be
it helps to find where is the problem.

Netolish

Riekr · n00b Joined: 21 Jun 2002 Posts: 47 Location: Italy

i'm using twm but can only get firefox working.. i can't start gedit or gnome-terminal for example.
Can anybody with a working gnome and xorg-7.0 (if any) post the output of emerge -pv xorg-x11 ?
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tokugawa · Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 5:08 pm Post subject:

keikoz · n00b Joined: 14 Feb 2006 Posts: 29

Did somebody try to emerge libxaw ?

I noticed makiing a revdep-rebuild some packages where missing it; i can't actually emerge it (for some personal reason :-)

but maybee this could be the problem.

keikoz

Riekr · n00b Joined: 21 Jun 2002 Posts: 47 Location: Italy

yes i have x11-libs/libXaw-1.0.1 installed but i still have the problem

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