On Friday 17 October 2003 08:44, Stephen Liu wrote: > Hi Paul, > > ><SNIP> > > > >># emerge - xfree > >>and > >># emerge -k kde > >>running without end. Finally I force-rebooted the PC. > > > >did you actually reboot (with CD1 removed) to get your system started up > >correctly??? > > > >cos what you've described sounds like you were still in the chrooted > >environment immediately after compiling the kernel etc. > > Now I redo > # emerge -k xfree > starting at 07:30 pm leaving the PC there running. I went to check it > at 12:30 pm (midnight). It was still running. This morning at 07:05 am > I went to check it again and found finished with following lines at the > end; > > .... > * Listening on tcp is disabled by default with startx > * To enable it, edit /usr/X11R6/bin/startx > > >>> Regenerating /etc/ld.so.chache... > >>> x11-base/xfree-4.3.0-r3 merged. > >>> Recording x11-base/xfree in "world" favorites file.... > >>> clean: No packages selected for removal > >>> Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache... > >>> Autocleaning packages.... > >>> No outdated packages were found on your system. > > * GNU info directory index is up-to-date > > # startx > -bash: startx: command not found > > # which startx > which: no startx in (/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin: ..........) > > # whereis startx > startx: /usr/X11R6/bin/startx /usr/bin/X11/startx > > Tried > # /usr/bin/X11/startx > /usr/bin/X11/startx/line: line 112: xauth: command not found > /usr/bin/X11/startx/line: line 113: xauth: command not found > .... > /usr/bin/X11/startx: line 151: xinit: command not found > /usr/bin/X11/startx/line: line 1: xauth: command not found > > # /usr/X11R6/bin/startx > same outcome > > x window could not start
It seems that /usr/X11R6/bin is not in root's path. Did you log on at a console as a regular user and then su to root? If you did, that would explain the missing path. > Remark: please advise what command will be issued to print screen and > save its content to a file, rather than typing it here avoiding typing > mistake. Thanks Use tee when emerging. > I shall continue later > # emerge -k kde > having no idea how long it will take. If all the packages are availale, it shouldn't take too long. Otherwise it could easily take as long as 24 hours. Jason -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
