Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> writes: > Apparently, though unproven, at 16:11 on Friday 22 October 2010, Allan > Gottlieb did opine thusly: > > [snip] > >> Perhaps I should be downgrading xorg-server as well. > > Masking mesa-7.8.2 means (per the ebuilds) you will have to drop back to > xorg-server-1.7.7-r1. Both are latest stable versions.
See below >> >> Since I would rather have a slow X than an angry portage, >> I removed the package mask and expected all to be well, but was >> surprised by the following. In particular at the end it says there is >> one block but I don't see any. > > [snip] > > Here you go: > > >> [blocks b ] <sys-apps/shadow-4.1.4.2-r6 >> ("<sys-apps/shadow-4.1.4.2-r6" is blocking sys-auth/consolekit-0.4.2-r3) >> [ebuild U ] sys-apps/shadow-4.1.4.2-r6 [4.1.4.2-r5] USE="cracklib >> nls pam -audit (-selinux) -skey" 1,749 kB I really did look for b's, but didn't see it. I guess I was looking near the ] where all the U's are. Embarrassing, to say the least. Thanks. Now I have masked mesa-7.8.2 downgrading to 7.7.1, which necessitated a downgrade of xorg-server to 1.7.7-r1 (latest stable), which necessitated a downgrade of xinit to 1.2.1. Thus my emerges now generate msgs that updates to xorg-server and xinit are being skipped due to unsatisfied dependencies. Other than this, the emerges perform normally and the system runs well. I could mask the newer versions of xorg-server and xinit and possibly prevent the emerge messages, but I am leaning toward leaving it as it is. This way when mesa is updated (to a hopefully fixed version) everything should update automatically. Does that sound reasonable. thanks again, allan