Bug 612992

Summary:	xorg 1.19.* updates should pull in x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel update, otherwise incompatible ABI
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Nick <nickAristocrates>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Nick 2017-03-18 09:19:15 UTC

Portage did not pull in an update to x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel when xorg 1.19 was marked stable and updated, causing X to fail to start due to ABI incompatibilities. Manually upgrading x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel fixed the problem.

Comment 1 Matt Turner gentoo-dev

2017-03-19 01:37:07 UTC

Yes, the reason is that VIDEO_CARDS="i965" does not depend on xf86-video-intel any more (with >=1.19 it depends on xorg-server[glamor] and uses the modesetting driver by default). Because xf86-video-intel is not required, it is not rebuilt, but then it's still installed so without emerge --depclean the xserver will try to load it, failing to start...

I'm not really sure how to handle that :(

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 600028 ***