xorg broken dependencies in Rawhide

[Bruno GARDIN]

I had the same kind of dependency problems with X11 on my rawhide. To solve
that:
 first i listed the installed x11 rpm and kept the list in a file for
potential further usage (i had 42 packages)
then i boot in single line mode
then delete all the X11 rpm-s
then re-install them starting x11 server
then restart and everything worked fine

Of course this is not the normal way but with rawhide you sometime have to
use the caterpillar method.

On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 5:52 PM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 16:46:30 +0000,
>  Andre Robatino <robatino at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> > Bruno Wolff III <bruno <at> wolff.to> writes:
> >
> > > When that first showed up I just removed the offending packages, did an
> > > update and things worked. The problem might be hardware related.
> >
> > Can you be more specific as to "offending packages"? If making this work
> > requires removing dozens of packages, I'd rather continue using
> multiuser mode
> > and wait for the problem to get fixed.
>
> What I do for key packages that I don't want to uninstall because they'd
> take most of the system with them is get the list of conflicts from the
> rawhide report, remove version and extra white space, remove duplicates
> and then use yum to find the ones I have installed and remove those. I add
> the list of stuff removed to a list i use to keep track of removed
> packages.
> (I generally prefer running up to date stuff over keeping packages that
> block updates, installed.) The rawhide reports don't cover rpmfusion
> packages, so if those are blocking updates you'll need to find them another
> way. Sometimes you can tell which packages are blocking updates just by
> looking at the normal yum output. Using -v helps in some other cases, but
> even with -v it isn't always clear which packages are causing problems.
>
> For packages that are key dependencies, you can just remove them and then
> try to put everything back.
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Bruno Gardin
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