When compiling Xfree86-4.2.0-r12 through portage, the compile bails on xkbcomp with the error : xkbcomp not found in ../../../exports/bin. I have replicated the bug several times, and the only way that I have found to circumvent it was to open another terminal and manually compile xkbcomp and its components during the emerge. It seems that the xkbcomp tree is not getting built at all, and it is causing the build to bail out.
Just as an addendum, this is the system that I was building on: Athlon XP 1900+ abit KG7 motherboard 512M PC2100 GeForce4 TI4400 //John
I get the same problem. However xkbcomp IS being compiled, it is just not being copied to ../../../exports/bin, so the compat.dir creation that it does fails. If I then copy xkbcomp to the proper directory and do ebuild xfree-* install, then ebuild xfree-* qmerge, it appears to work, but I can't get the resulting X installation to run, ever...it just dies immediately with IO Error 104 on :0.0 Very frustrating. Running on an Athlon 1800+. This happened for 2 fresh 1.2 installations and one 1.3b installation.
Seems that Toonse and I have resolved the problem. It seems that grsecurity was set to "high" in our kernels. This caused X to not be able to bind to a screen. I am not sure if this is the same for the other settings of grsecurity, but it would be interesting to find out. //John
Sorry for the error, but its really late/early ;-) My above fix solves's toonse's problem of x not starting and just hanging. The compilation issue w/ xkbcomp *still exists* //John
What about remerging with grsecurity disabled ?
I haven't tried that yet, as I just got X working and don't have another box to try it on... I will try and find another box, but that is not looking good right now. Give it a try if you want to ;-) //John
I despise grsecurity :/ This I guess I can add to the list of things why. It is just too deeply rooted, causes things to misbehave, a massive slowdown, and just general unstable system. Ok, ok, so it was some time since I did try it out last. Just as an note .... I have compiled -r12 near 20 times on this box alone now, if not more during debugging, adding patches, etc. It also has compiled fine on a few others. So, maybe its grsecurity, maybe something else. Thus you have my vote of it working ( *g* ). It would have been nice though to know if it worked fine on the systems that it failed to compile with grsecurity or not. This now without making too many (except for kernel) changes to the system. Anyhow, ill see if I can find anything out until maybe one of you guys gets a moment to test it.
I get the same error when I try to compile xfree-4.2.0-r12 on my cyrix pr200+(150mhz), 64 mb ram, 6gb hdd, s3 968, 3dfx voodoo 1. Also, gsecurity is disabeld in my kernel
I also get the same error. I am running on an athalon xp1800 and gresecurity is enabled, high i think. this is a fresh 1.2 stage 1 install.
I just recompiled my kernel without gresecurity and got the same error.
I got xfree-4.2.0-r12 to merge. First i built a new kernel without gresecurity, and added "-nogresec" to the maefiles extra version, rebooted to the new kernel and had the same problem. Then I tried changing the /usr/src/linux link to point to a new linux source tree which was renamed to match the kernel version as given by uname -a. then it worked.:) -michael
