Gregory Shearman wrote: > In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: > >>>>> Completed installing ati-drivers-8.552-r2 into >> * >> * Searching all installed packages for file collisions... >> * >> * Press Ctrl-C to Stop >> * >> * x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 >> * /usr/lib64/opengl/ati/extensions/libglx.so >> * >> * Package 'x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2' NOT merged due to file >> * collisions. If necessary, refer to your elog messages for the whole >> * content of the above message. >> >>>>> Failed to install x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2, Log file: > >> microway ~ # portageq owners / /usr/lib64/opengl/ati/extensions/libglx.so >> x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 >> /usr/lib64/opengl/ati/extensions/libglx.so >> >> Doing "portageq owners / /usr/lib64/opengl/ati/extensions/libglx.so" >> gets the following response: >> x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 >> /usr/lib64/opengl/ati/extensions/libglx.so >> >> Suggestions for how to successfully "emerge -D -uav world" would be much >> appreciated. > > G'day John, > > I had the problem on a 32 bit machine and just removed the offending > file: > > rm /usr/lib/opengl/ati/extensions/libglx.so > > I then proceeded with the emerge of the ati-driver. It's discussed here: > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/247685 > > I hope this helps. > Thanks, Gregory. Your suggestion pointed me in the right direction. After removing libglx.so, I tried emerge again and got the following message:
!!! Cannot write to '/usr/lib32/opengl/ati/extensions'. !!! Please check permissions and directories for broken symlinks. Eventually, I did emerge -C ati-drivers dispatch-conf emerge -D -uav world That seems to have taken care of the problems ... for now anyway. John
