Bug 248453 – gnome-base/gail-1.22.3 is blocking many apps (firefox, nvidia-drivers)

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description David Raison 2008-11-23 18:55:57 UTC]

gail is blocking a lot of apps I'm currently trying to install or upgrade.

It blocks mozilla-firefox-2.0.0.18, nvidia-drivers, banshee ah... and some I don't remember.

However, if I install gdm-2.20.7, gail-1.22.3 is reinstalled as a dependency

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. unmerge gail
2. emerge gdm-themes

OR

1. emerge gail
2. emerge mozilla-firefox

Actual Results:  
Either a dependency is missing or new ebuilds are blocked


Portage 2.1.4.5 (default/linux/x86/2008.0, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.27-gentoo-r3 i686)
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System uname: 2.6.27-gentoo-r3 i686 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6400 @ 2.13GHz
Timestamp of tree: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 17:00:01 +0000
distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled]
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p33
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.6
dev-lang/python:     2.4.4-r13, 2.5.2-r7
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r7
dev-util/cmake:      2.4.8
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61-r2
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.26
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.23-r3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=nocona -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/4.0/env /usr/kde/4.0/share/config /usr/kde/4.0/shutdown /usr/share/config /var/lib/hsqldb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=nocona -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="ccache distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/gentoo/ http://mirror.qubenet.net/mirror/gentoo/ http://gentoo.ynet.sk/pub"
LC_ALL="en_GB.UTF-8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
LINGUAS="en en_GB ja"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"

[Comment 1 Rafał Mużyło 2008-11-23 21:42:57 UTC]

I think bug may lay on your side.
gail became a part of the recent enough gtk (2.14).

You failed to post the -pt output, but I think this is probably related.

Just to make sure, what's your version of gtk+ ?

[Comment 2 David Raison 2008-11-24 15:15:20 UTC]

uuhhh.. I think I might see the problem, a ~x86 version of gtk: gtk+-2.14.4

Seems no package is requiring the unstable version anymore, I'll downgrade to stable and see if the problem's still there

Sorry for bothering

[Comment 3 Rafał Mużyło 2008-11-24 16:15:39 UTC]

Better stay with 2.14 and simply unmask gail-1000,
when 2.14 hits stable you'll have to get it anyway.